klemen wrote: > Hello > > I have new computer in which I would like to have same things as on old > one (OpenBSD 4.2). In old one have software raid with two 500g ide drives. > How will raid "react" if I move both disks to new computer with > completely different hardware.
depends how completely different you are talking about. :) If you are going from an amd64 system to a Sparc64, it won't work for a lot of reasons long before you get to RAID. However, I suspect by "completely different", you mean "80% the same", such as from an AMD64 to another AMD64 or i386 to another i386, (or even i386 to a newer amd64) in which case, it should just work, again having nothing to do with the (unspecified) software RAID system in use. Granted, since we are missing all specifics here, you win nothing for coming up with a wacked scenario that it won't work in (I can think of a few), but since the software RAID partition is just a partition of the disk, if the system boots (indicating the partitioning is good), RAID will usually "just work", and it will almost always boot when moving around on the same platform. Nick.
