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Or a link to it, of course?
I have a Giga GA - 7N400 Pro2 mobo running a stable 1700+. winXP
system. However, it will soon get a major makeover including...
3200+ CPU,
2 x 512 meg Crucial PC3200's,
Zalman 400w noisless (bliss) PSU,
9800 pro 128meg graphics, and crucially
3 x Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache
Assuming I assemble the hardware without blowing anything up, I want
to run two of the HDD's in raid 0 for data transfer speed. (I know,
the most fragile way of doing it, but thats a seperate issue ATM). I
also want to dual boot. (Had a good read of
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/, very good info). So can anyone
tell me exactly what I need to do to run in raid0? I have never used
raid before.
I assume...
At power up, go into bios and enable raid.
[do I enable / disable anything else?]
During boot, press whatever keys the bios says to set up raid and make
the bios see them as one HDD with 320 gig capacity.
Use partition magic to set up the required partitions and format them.
Install Os's as per above link.
Get the latest drivers for raid for the OS's?
I'm sure there's much more to it, so could some kind soul fill in the
blanks in as much detail as they feel like doing? It would help an
old man in his dotage very much! Well, I feel old sometimes, anyway.
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards from Mike Barnard
South Coast, UK.
[To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address]
Or a link to it, of course?
I have a Giga GA - 7N400 Pro2 mobo running a stable 1700+. winXP
system. However, it will soon get a major makeover including...
3200+ CPU,
2 x 512 meg Crucial PC3200's,
Zalman 400w noisless (bliss) PSU,
9800 pro 128meg graphics, and crucially
3 x Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache
Assuming I assemble the hardware without blowing anything up, I want
to run two of the HDD's in raid 0 for data transfer speed. (I know,
the most fragile way of doing it, but thats a seperate issue ATM). I
also want to dual boot. (Had a good read of
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/, very good info). So can anyone
tell me exactly what I need to do to run in raid0? I have never used
raid before.
I assume...
At power up, go into bios and enable raid.
[do I enable / disable anything else?]
During boot, press whatever keys the bios says to set up raid and make
the bios see them as one HDD with 320 gig capacity.
Use partition magic to set up the required partitions and format them.
Install Os's as per above link.
Get the latest drivers for raid for the OS's?
I'm sure there's much more to it, so could some kind soul fill in the
blanks in as much detail as they feel like doing? It would help an
old man in his dotage very much! Well, I feel old sometimes, anyway.
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards from Mike Barnard
South Coast, UK.
[To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address]