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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Creating a Mirror RAID With Existing Disk Post 47351 by oombera on Monday 9th of February 2004 12:32:32 AM
Old 02-09-2004
In short, yes. But I'm not personally familiar with it, since I've never done it. Remember you can always search these forums first: Smilie

https://www.unix.com/unix-for-advanced-and-expert-users/11548-plz-reply-whether-possible-not.html?s=
* has a link to The Linux Documentation Project

https://www.unix.com/unix-for-advanced-and-expert-users/8059-need-redundency-solution-solaris.html?s=
* provides a nifty link to google

https://www.unix.com/solaris/4285-raid-0-a.html?s=
* (explains how to do it in solaris - may have useful info)

Anyway, I'm sure someone else can help you much more, but maybe this can get you started...
 

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