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In article <1114733289.453032.139990@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"wally" <wallynospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
> thanks paul,
> I understand the 0-1 concept stripe mirror but following instructions
> it says to create a raid
> 1 mirror volume 1/2 the size of 1disk at boot up then run windows setup
> install all drivers then install intel application accelerator
> software. After this you are to choose create a raid volume from
> existing harddrive then create a raid 0/stripe volume. Problem is
> everytime I do this it tells me non raid disk not found.. I'm beginning
> to think you need 4 drives to do 1+0. I'm on my 7th go round trying
> this with deleting raid volumes/ re windows setup, cable configs. This
> is my first sata raid experience been building rigs since my first 286
> ,even built a cyrex 586 once
, can't seem to get a handle on this
> 0+1 thing with 2 drives
Where are you getting these instructions from ? Are they in the
user manual or are you using a manual you found on the motherboard
CD, in the manuals/ folder ?
One possibility, is you are using the wrong version of IAAR. The
original Intel RAID software didn't do the Matrix configuration,
and either did RAID0 or it did RAID1. Since you have the latest
and greatest hardware, the Windows software should support the
Matrix option.
To get the latest driver, go to downloadfinder.intel.com ,
select "chipset" from the side bar, "chipset software" from
the menu, then "Intel Matrix Storage" from the next menu.
After selecting your OS (WinXP), you should end up here:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1809&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21
The floppy maker stuff is at the bottom of the page, if you
want to make a floppy for the OS drivers, to be installed
with F6 at Windows install time. The topmost download is
for the full package to install once Windows is installed.
In order for this thing to work, the success ingredients will
be:
1) When you set up the first RAID volume, make sure the capacity
you select is small enough, so there is room for the second
RAID volume later.
2) Convince the software to accept adding the second volume,
to the existing two disks.
I suppose the reason the instructions are having you create
one volume in the BIOS, and the second volume at runtime, is
to make sure you are using the right drivers for them ?
Otherwise, if it was me, I would be trying to make both
volumes using the RAID BIOS interface. After all, both levels
of the system have to understand how the Matrix RAID data is
laid out on the disks, in order to do anything.
One of the critical aspects of using RAID, is understanding
what to do if something goes wrong. Many people use the
RAID for a while, and then one day, they get a "degraded"
or "failed" status on their RAID and they don't know what
to do. When you have live data on a disk, is not the time
to be experimenting. No matter what you decide to do, make
sure you have a backup strategy, as even a RAID mirror
needs to be backed up. A mirror is not a replacement for
a backup strategy.
The maintenance aspect is one reason I refuse to use RAID
on my computers here. I like my hardware to be simple to
understand and maintain, and running non-RAID is what does
that for me. If a single disk fails for me, I replace the
bad disk, restore from backup, and carry on. With the RAID,
I can never be sure I am supposed to "delete array" or whatever,
after a failure occurs.
Paul
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