Couple of RAID questions

[iaind]

Ok I wont bore you with the details of WHY I want to do these things, but was wondering if anyone knows whether -

- I can pull out a hot spare drive of a running server without anything going mental (its a Sun RAID5/6 card, which is one of the dual core Adaptec SAS cards)

- I can install an OS on a single disk and later create a mirror of that drive without having to reinstall everything? Thats a Sun RAID1/0 card, which is LSI IIRC...

Ta!

 

[iaind]

The disk I want to pull out is a hot spare for the array, not an active member. I know it'll carry on working but I know with these cards if you trigger an alert you get a VERY loud beeping which needs a reboot to clear...