Equipment: 1.25 DP G4 FW800 with 80GB stock drive, plus a 60 GB ATA-100 installed on the second (ATA-66) bus as master, and the two drives set up with Disk Utility as a RAID-1 mirrored set.
Apple software RAID forces a reformat, in order to split a mirrored set into two separate drives. I don't know why this has to be the case - since all the software does is modify the partition map of the original drive, shouldn't there be a way to modify (revert) it back to its original state so that the computer sees the drives as separate but equal? (sorry
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If there is no means of doing this simply, then I have to do the following (I think):
1. Remove the second (mirrored) drive from the computer.
2. Install the second drive in the ext. FW enclosure.
3. Reboot - HD Utility will tell me there is a problem with the RAID.
4. Use CarbonCopyCloner to clone the internal drive onto the FW drive.(I am assuming that the RAID info is on the partition map, so it won't be copied over to the FW drive - correct?)
5. Restart with the OS X install CD.
6. Use Disk Utility to reformat the internal drive (and delete the RAID-1 set if this is an option).
7. Restart with the FW drive (I assume it will boot off this).
8. Use CarbonCopyCloner to clone the FW drive back onto the internal drive.
9. Disconnect the FW drive and restart off the internal drive.
10. Reconnect the FW drive and reformat it.
Why can't life be simple?
TIA, Ken
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