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Re: [LUG] Is this RAID

 

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Paul Sutton wrote:
| Hi
|
| I have been asked by someone how to mirror a harddisk onto another so
| the system sees it as one hard disk,  I am unsure what he means as I
| thought the mirror command in dos simply made a copy of 1 harddisk (or
| partition)0 onto another.
|
| I think he may mean RAID,  where he can take C: and D:  so windows 98
| sees both as one drive.
|
| I know this is not exactly a Linux question,  but am I right in
| interpreting this as raid,  and how would he implement this under 98, I
| am sure you need a RAID card, and possible scsi harddisks.   I know
| Linux supports RAID.
|
| I am a little out of my depth with this,  but think I have an idea what
| he wants,
|
| Thanks for any help
|
| Paul
|

Mirroring in this case IS a form of Raid. Email me off list if you need
assistance on this ;-)

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