> We had two IBM 6.4G IDE HDD's in a raid0 combo, thus making a 12G ext2
> partition. Just yesterday one of
> the drives died (it's making some very weird sounds ;( ) and I'm wandering
> if there's any way of restoring the
> data off the first haddrive which seems to be working ok still.
Not unless you can restore the second hard drive to operation without destroying any
data on it. That's the difference between RAID-0 and RAID-1/5. RAID-0 offers no
redundancy, just the ability to create one larger device and increased performance,
whereas RAID-1 and -5 offer redundancy, so you can continue to operate when one (at
least, depending on configuration) disk dies. In future, you might want to create (at
least) two arrays on a 2-disk set: a RAID-1 array for essential system files and
data, and a RAID-0 array for less essential files.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
