Re: RAID-1 and swap and md when an IDE disc fails

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:27:37 +0000, Frank Hamersley wrote:

For sure. I now have an off-line spare to enable minimal time in degraded
state - esp. given HDD are so cheap now!

I thought I'd done that. But it turns out that the spare SATA1 drive I
purchased wasn't completely compatible. There was a SATA data cable, of
course. But the drives in the desktop used one type of power connector
while the drive I ordered had a different type of power connector.

It never occurred to me that this would be variable!

- Andrew

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