breaking xserve software RAID mirror

[anykey]

I want upgrade our xserve from 2 x 250GB mirrored discs running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on xserve to running 1 x 250GB system disc (keeping other as spare) and 2 x 500GB mirrored data discs. (Then upgrade to Tiger).

Can I break the software mirror with:
diskutil destroyRAID /dev/disk{x}
or does this destroy the data too? Would I be left with two working, bootable discs or just two RAID slices? If the latter, how can I convert them into 'normal' bootable discs?

Would it be better to upgrade to Tiger first? Or not make much difference?

[Go3iverson]

Tiger's diskutility functionality includes the ability to break a mirrored boot RAID.

Just a note, if your going this route with OS and user data on the internal drives, you may want to consider the hardware raid card, so you can still have redundancy on the OS as well as the general file sharing.

Michael
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Michael Dhaliwal, ACSA
www.district13computing.com