Breaking a hardware mirror

[David Huttner]

I thought this would be simple. Maybe I'm missing something.

I have two SCSI drives hardare mirror via a 641 RAID controller. I want to break the mirror and use only one SCSI drive and NOT loose the data that's already on it. Can't seem to find a way to do this without loosing the data on my drive.

Help...

Thanks!

[Oleg Koroz]

You cantt migrate from RAID1 to single Drive RAID 0
Limitation of Hardware RAID technologies.
Only if you willing to trick controller and work later with message Failed or Missing Drive replace drive. (Not the best Practice)

[Oleg Koroz]

You can make it now - with Firmware Update it's possibly

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23683.html

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/revision/7739.html

... Added split-mirroring support and a mirroring re-synchronization feature. This allows a RAID 1 volume to be split into two RAID 0 volumes and then combine the two RAID 0 volumes into a single RAID 1 volume....