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From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" <h@schmalzbauer.de>
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Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> Harald,
>
> When in doubt, install freebsd 5.x on a different drive running off of a
> different controller, mount the slices from one of the disks in the RAID
> array and copy your data to a safe and trusted location.

Thanks for the hint, I did something like that. When deleting the mirror
relationship the machine boots fine and I could copy tha data elswhere. But
I could not reastablish the mirror without loosing data from the disks (but
now I have a backup!)

Best regards,

-Harry

>
> Regards,
>
> > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
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