You keep making my points for me and then trying to make them arguments
against me. I don't think you get it at all.

I don't expect drives from a Compaq hardware RAID to work in IBM or Dell
hardware RAID. That's one reason why we prefer software mirrors for boot
volumes. Because we the software mirror we can move the drive across
different vendor's hardware without any issue, and work on the drive to make
it bootable again.

--
Will


"NuTCrAcKeR" wrote in message
...
anyone that thinks they can take a compaq raid volume and move it to an
IBM
or Dell array controller (or any other interoperable scenario) and have it
work should have thier head checked. I really hope that isnt what I think
I
am hearing the OP complain about.

- LC

"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message
oups.com...
I'm sorry for taking so long to reply. I am afraid I made rather merry
this New Years.

I had an identical 1600 sitting on the bench beside the first one (that
I mentioned in the prvious post), and I switched a drive from the first
system to the scond system (which had an identical RAID arrangement)
and the new system assimilated to the established OS installed on the
disk that I inserted. I think this corresponds to the experiment that
Will suggested. The results: Compaq Hardware RAID works exactly as any
of us could possibly hope. The new (completely seperate and
unconnected) system BECAME the old system after about two and a half
minutes of disk activity.

If Will is suggesting a strange redundancy between uncompaible systems,
then he may have a point... but as far as Compaq Hardware Raid is
concerned, everything WORKS as it has been advertised to work...at
least according to my bench tests.