>>Evan, AFAIK Jim was using a *HW*-RAID. That alone would make me nervous trying to copy data off using "normal" SATA. I'ld hesitate to involve other adapters as simple as they may seem - sometimes they "hide" technical info from install screens, so I'ld keep it as KISS as possible<g>.

>Can you send any info on this?
Only circumstancial evidence. One magazine I particurly like is called "c'T" - their level has dropped from technical freak's/"engineer understandable only" to a level american BYTE had in the beginning/in the eighties (a bit more mainstream, but not wishy/washy and only reiterating press releases like some other magazines today).

Not Tom's Hardware or Anandtech, but they *test and think*. Dunno if english translations are in print, but I think they are translated into some other languages. They tested HW and SW raid and (as the performance for cheap HW RAID/mainboard included and SW RAID was nearly identical) reccommended to use software RAID in case the disk had to be moved into another Wintel system housing no/other HW RAID. AFAIR they made ***no*** distinction on the RAID level to be used - I'ld be scared most moving RAID 5, a bit lesser on RAID 0, least on RAID 1 from visualizing the necessary operations. Similar warnings in an article on intel matrix RAID controllers - "really nice idea, but jumping mainboards/platforms might grow more difficult"

Also periodic warnings ***NOT*** to trust the NTFS drivers of any linux distribution on partitions RAID was used on under windows. Danger of RAIDED partitions not viewed as a unit and separately accessed, and even more so if HW-specific drivers were needed under Windows.

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>BTW: Jim's computer is now in the shop.
Yupp, I UT in the times my other machine is running some new routines, and my answers are often a 1 or 2H behind the latest posts - no interface for get all new messages additive.

@Jim: sorry if I seem to react very slowly sometimes, havin not read the latest posts<g>

regards

thomas