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Thank you very much for your quick response. Your response helps.
"Rube" <dont@spam.me> wrote in message
news:eEi9w0q8EHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> The SmartArray is HP specific. Your card should have included its own
> utilities.
> IDE & SATA RAID implementations are usually a whole lot less developed
> than
> SCSI setups. Its really hit or miss with IDE or SATA. Now, if you go with
> one of the really high-end sata raid cards (Areca & RaidCore) then chances
> are you will get a good set of windows utilities.
> But to answer your question, Yes, I had a single 36GB scsi drive in my
> system as a raid 0 volume attached to a SmartArray 642 controller. I month
> later, I added the 2nd 36GB drive. The 642's BIOS gave me no option to
> migrate my single raid 0 volume to raid 1. I then booted into windows and
> ran the SmartArray utility (which was pre-installed on my Proliant ml330
> g3
> and is part of their SmartStart setup utility set) The utility gave me so
> many more options in a pretty "raid-for-dummies" style interface. It was
> very easy and took only a few minutes to migrate from 1 drive to a
> mirrored
> pair.
>
> "Diane Walker" <ett9300@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23m5dhip8EHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> We have a similar question as Miha, except we don't have the on-board
>> RAID
>> controller. We purchased the RAID controller card from LSI Logic. So,
> you
>> just installed the HP SmartArray utility in Windows. Then, you use the
>> HP
>> SmartArray utility to configure the RAID and you DONOT have to reinstall
>> Windows?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> "Rube" <dont@spam.me> wrote in message
>> news:%23D0Hcte8EHA.2032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> > Many RAID vendors don't include the option to do this in the raid cards
>> > bios
>> > setup screens but instead, its done from within an O/S gui. HP's
>> > SmartArray
>> > cards are like this. I did the exact same thing a month ago. I had to
> use
>> > the smart array windows utility.
>> >
>> > "Miha" <miha.bernik@isg.si> wrote in message
>> > news:O7Usdfc8EHA.3124@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> >> Thanks for help. I'll see if this could be done.
>> >> Regards
>> >> Miha
>> >>
>> >> "Colon Terminus" <Colon_Terminus@hotmail.com> je napisal v sporoèilo
>> >> news:rTeCd.112083$2W1.12606@news.easynews.com ...
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm sure it depends on what RAID controller you have, but it should
> be
>> >> > simple. Most controllers will let you set up the mirror at any time
>> >> > without
>> >> > destroying any data on the "Source" disk. Just install the second
> disk,
>> >> > establish the mirror and copy the "Source" disk to the Mirror disk.
>> >> > This
>> >> > last step is usually done "on the fly".
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > "Miha" <miha.bernik@isg.si> wrote in message
>> >> > news:uMt2jFb8EHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> >> >> Hi
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is it possible to install op. system (windows 2003 server) on 1
>> >> >> SCSI
>> >> >> disk,
>> >> >> and then later (because our HW distributor will deliver us another
> one
>> > in
>> >> > 14
>> >> >> days)
>> >> >> add additional SCSI HS disk and configure them in mirror mode -
>> >> >> not
>> >> >> software mirror but RAID 1 that is supported with on-board
> controller
>> > on
>> >> >> a
>> >> >> server, so that data will be available after configuring a new
> array.
>> >> >> As I know, last time when we set-up a server with HW RAID1, we had
> to
>> >> >> 'initialize' disks when creating a new array and the disks were
>> >> >> also
>> >> >> formatted during that configuration
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards
>> >> >> Miha
>> >> >>
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