Thomas A. Anderson wrote: > Once I can get anything off one of these two drives, I will then switch > my current setup to 1 drive (8TB), with an attached 8TB drive that will > be be backup --weekly, or whatever.
you can start one of the drives that was member of raid1 array on any computer, just as Reco said by assembling the mdraid on that computer. Check mdadm man page. For example I attached a disk that was member of raid through a USB storage box: * Examine the RAID table mdadm --examine /dev/sdj /dev/sdj: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 997376 sectors at 2048 (type fd) Partition[1] : 156250112 sectors at 999424 (type fd) Partition[2] : 1796272130 sectors at 157251582 (type 05) * Assemble and run the RAID array with one disk mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sdj1 mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2). mdadm -A -R /dev/md1 /dev/sdj2 mdadm: /dev/md1 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2). mdadm -A -R /dev/md2 /dev/sdj5 mdadm: /dev/md2 has been started with 1 drive (out of 2). Now I can do whatever I want with those partitions