On 23 Aug 2004 04:24:20 -0700, (Cameron) wrote:

The mirror drive is normally invisible, the controller will hide it
from the OS and all writes are made via the controller BIOS. Your
computer will simply not see the mirror drive at all. If you put a new
drive in to replace the broken one then the BIOS will attempt to
reconstruct the working drive.

If you connect the mirror drive directly to the MB SATA controller you
should at least be able to detect the drive in the main BIOS, and also
in Windows (provided the correct SATA drivers are installed). However,
the partitions may well be hidden and not accessible directly (I've
never attempted to try it). If they are hidden you can use a decent
utility (like Partition Magic) to un-hide the partitions and then I
see no reason why you would not have access to your data.

ChrisH