which group to use?

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Another suggestion for you to consider:

(1) Refer to your MB manual and see if there are any instructions, BIOS
settings, and/or drivers needed to be done before, during, and after your
installations.

(2) You should also know the chipset used by the MB as it should be listed
on the box and manual, you may also go to chipset provider's site (e.g.
Intel provides lots of information and necessary drivers which may as well
included in your MB CD) to check if any thing needs to be done.

But reading your MB manual is definitely a good place to start with.


"Ray" <kermitbaby@bigpond.net.au>
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> I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had built.
> The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
> This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410
> chipset.
> I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want to set these
> up
> in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.
>
> Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to discuss
> this matter - or should i post to all?
>
> TIA
> R
>
>

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In news:u7n4QLuKFHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
Ray <kermitbaby@bigpond.net.au> respectfully replied ;-)
> I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had
> built. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
> This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410
> chipset. I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want
> to set these up in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.
>
> Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to
> discuss this matter - or should i post to all?
>
> TIA
> R

You can cross post to all five, but it is usually best to limit cross posts
to three relevant groups.
The groups you posted to were all relevant, but I would go for general,
hardware, and setup_deployment.
You didn't state your problem, so describe the problem and include as much
detail as brief and concise as possible.
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Tom wrote:
> "Ray" <kermitbaby@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:u7n4QLuKFHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had
>> built. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
>> This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410
>> chipset.
>> I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want to set
>> these up
>> in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.
>>
>> Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to
>> discuss this matter - or should i post to all?
>>
>> TIA
>> R
>>
>>
>
> See if this helps:
> http://members.shaw.ca/xtremecomputing/RAID.htm
>
> If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what
> groups, it is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than three
> groups. Hardware, and General groups would be my first two for sure,
> add a third as you see fit.

I don't generally accept your three group maximum. I find a five group
limit is sufficient.

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In news:um$UdUuKFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Tom <noway@nothere.com> typed:

> "Ray" <kermitbaby@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:u7n4QLuKFHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

>> Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be
>> using to
>> discuss this matter - or should i post to all?

> If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what
> groups, it is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than
> three
> groups.


There's no such number of groups that everyone agrees on.
Cross-posting gets a bad reputation mostly because it's a tool of
spammers who post to many groups and unrelated ones.

But there's nothing wrong with legitimate, non-spamming
cross-posting, even to more than three groups. If the groups are
related to each other, and all appropriate for the question being
asked, I don't have any problem with posting to more than three
groups. I usually recommend cross-posting to only a "few" related
groups, with "few" purposely left undefined. The only reason I
even say a "few" is to try to discourage a shotgun approach,
where someone for example might post to *every* Windows group in
the remote hope that one of them might get him the answer he
wants.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

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"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:uQfzJqxKFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> In news:um$UdUuKFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
> Tom <noway@nothere.com> typed:
>
>> "Ray" <kermitbaby@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:u7n4QLuKFHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>
>>> Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to
>>> discuss this matter - or should i post to all?
>
>> If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what
>> groups, it is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than three
>> groups.
>
>
> There's no such number of groups that everyone agrees on. Cross-posting
> gets a bad reputation mostly because it's a tool of spammers who post to
> many groups and unrelated ones.
>
> But there's nothing wrong with legitimate, non-spamming cross-posting,
> even to more than three groups. If the groups are related to each other,
> and all appropriate for the question being asked, I don't have any problem
> with posting to more than three groups. I usually recommend cross-posting
> to only a "few" related groups, with "few" purposely left undefined. The
> only reason I even say a "few" is to try to discourage a shotgun approach,
> where someone for example might post to *every* Windows group in the
> remote hope that one of them might get him the answer he wants.
>

As I explained to kurt, it is really three being my prefernce, but I don't
mind a few more, I only gave "what I thought" was acceptable, since the OP
asked regarding it. I have seen quite a few (even experts here) quote the "3
limit" preference, or general rule, but that it all it is to me, "general".
But if one were to post to many more (e.g. 6+), than your point of
shot-gunning becomes more the point, than the request for help.

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Tom wrote:
>
> As I explained to kurt, it is really three being my prefernce, but I don't
> mind a few more, I only gave "what I thought" was acceptable, since the OP
> asked regarding it. I have seen quite a few (even experts here) quote the "3
> limit" preference, or general rule, but that it all it is to me, "general".
> But if one were to post to many more (e.g. 6+), than your point of
> shot-gunning becomes more the point, than the request for help.
>
>

How and Why to Crosspost: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

Crossposting (from Zen and the Art of the Internet):
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproje [...] html#SEC52

What about cross-posting (from the Net Abuse FAQ):
http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/n [...] q.html#2.3