Hey, all. I'm setting up a RAID 1 array on my new machine. Specs, just in case they're needed: Asus A8N-VM board, two 300gb Seagate SATA drives.
First thing I did was to set up the RAID array through the hardware. The BIOS then recgonized the two drives as one, and I went to go install XP. Setup had an issue with installation due to the drives, so I went into the BIOS and turned off the nVidia RAID. (I don't have a floppy drive on the machine, so I couldn't put the drivers on a floppy and install them that way.) The BIOS still saw the drives as one, though. I went through the XP installation, and it noticed the two drives separately. I installed on one of them. Once the installation was done, I looked at my computer through Windows. It only listed one hard drive in My Computer, but in its Properties, it showed two drives. I then went back into the BIOS and turned the nVidia RAID function back on.
So I'm wondering if my drives are actually mirrors right now, or if I'm only running off of one and not the other. Other questions:
- How do I check to see if the drives are truly RAID 1?
- If one drive dies, I should still be able to use the other drive, right? How do I do that?
- In case something happens, how do I synchronize the drives?
If I've got more questions, I'll post them later. Thanks in advance.
First thing I did was to set up the RAID array through the hardware. The BIOS then recgonized the two drives as one, and I went to go install XP. Setup had an issue with installation due to the drives, so I went into the BIOS and turned off the nVidia RAID. (I don't have a floppy drive on the machine, so I couldn't put the drivers on a floppy and install them that way.) The BIOS still saw the drives as one, though. I went through the XP installation, and it noticed the two drives separately. I installed on one of them. Once the installation was done, I looked at my computer through Windows. It only listed one hard drive in My Computer, but in its Properties, it showed two drives. I then went back into the BIOS and turned the nVidia RAID function back on.
So I'm wondering if my drives are actually mirrors right now, or if I'm only running off of one and not the other. Other questions:
- How do I check to see if the drives are truly RAID 1?
- If one drive dies, I should still be able to use the other drive, right? How do I do that?
- In case something happens, how do I synchronize the drives?
If I've got more questions, I'll post them later. Thanks in advance.