In another thread some time ago, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

"  With a 3ware hardware RAID controller and good-quality hot-swap drive
"  bays; you go to the web or command line interface for the array, remove
"  the failed drive from the array, pull the drive, put in the new one, tell
"  the 3ware controller to add it back in, and rebuild the array. Done.

If a person does this with a good drive, is the removed good drive 
readable, as is, on a standard motherboard pata port?

I'm trying to avoid having to learn 3ware CLI.  Doing most of the 
above and removing a good drive from a mirror (for offsite backup) 
with 3DM2 doesn't give me a flawless copy.  I don't have hot swap 
cages so I power down the machine to remove/replace the drive, which 
seems to me like it should work.

The problem I have is that when I check the off-site candidate drive 
on a standard (not 3ware controller) port, /dev/hda say, gparted 
shows it as being unallocated space.  I can sometimes rewrite the 
partition table to get the /var/lib/backuppc to show up in a 
completely useable way but, with my fat fingers, I'd rather not have 
to rely on that.

R  


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