• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Enabling RAID Mirrors Redux

    When new versions of operating systems come out sometimes articles need to be updated. It’s always nice when someone else does the hard part. Recently, Ben Levy, an Apple Consultant from Los Angeles, did some work on an article I did awhile back. To quote Ben, the new procedure is to: 1. Boot from something other than your intended RAIDed boot drive, open Terminal and use diskutil list to identify the relevant disks and partitions. 2. diskutil appleRAID enable mirror disk0s2 – (assuming correctly identified slice, yours may be different) This command turns your primary disk into a RAID mirror without a mirror 3. Reboot back to your boot drive…