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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Tealby, Kevin" <ktealby@mmail.indcom.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: Second disk question
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On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 01:05:00PM +0000, Tealby, Kevin wrote:
>
> Hi there!!!
>
> If I put 2 disks into a FreeBSD machine and then later the disk with the
> operating system on it dies. Can I still recover the data on the second
> disk?

Theoretically, yes.  You're going to need to have a running system,
but the data is still there.

> Can I have the operating system preloaded on both drives?

Yes.  You can even choose which one you want to boot.

Greg