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Drive partitions with ide raid

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DickBurns

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My new system I am building for myself has dual IBMs running raid 0 on the promise controller onboard on my new asus a7v266-e. I haven't gotten all my parts yet but I have some questions about setting up the raid. I seem to remember that for an ide raid you set up everything first on one drive and then in windows you configure the raid on the other drive and then it will strip the os and whatever else accross the two drives. My first question is could I make two partitions on each drive before setting up the raid and then only stripe accross part of each drive and still have a partition on each that is not part of the raid? That way I could put data that is important to me that does not need to be sped up on the secondary partitions. Will this work?

Second question...Will I beable to use Ghost? I routinely do backups by ghosting either to cd or if I am just changing something like my os and I might want a way back I will ghost to another partition. Since the raid is a software one will ghost be able to see it.

Third question...Is there any way to UN-raid drives. Say I need an extra hard drive could I return all my data back to one drive and just use that one.

Thanks very much helping me 🙂=
 
ive never been able to setup a raid in windows like youre describing. ive always had to set it up prior to the install. (maybe because i have High-Point?) anyways.. i use Partition Magic 7 Pro's floppy util and boot into that, it lets me access raid drives and partition them. it also lets me back them up. havent tried ghost tho..

my setup:

ide 0:
master: Lite-On 24x10x40x
slave: Pioneer 16x DVD
ide 1:
master: Zip 100
slave: nothing

raid ide 0:
master: western digital 30gb ata100 7200rpm raid 0
slave: maxtor 15gb ata66 5400rpm

raid ide 1:
master: western digital 30gb ata100 7200rpm raid 0
slave: maxtor 4gb ata33 5400rpm


hope that helps.

edit: as far as i know.. there isnt anyway to unraid the drives, maybe with the extra software it provides or other 3rd party.
 


<< I seem to remember that for an ide raid you set up everything first on one drive and then in windows you configure the raid on the other drive and then it will strip the os and whatever else accross the two drives >>


Is this possible? I always set up the raid first like SinNisTeR said and then installed.

Thanks SinNisTeR about the floppy info. I have 2 60 gig IBM's on the way and I figure I should partion them and I'm happy to see that PM 7 disks will do it.

 


<< My first question is could I make two partitions on each drive before setting up the raid and then only stripe accross part of each drive and still have a partition on each that is not part of the raid? That way I could put data that is important to me that does not need to be sped up on the secondary partitions. Will this work? >>



Uhhh i don't know about that one. I think RAID uses the whole physical drive to stripe it... and no you can't 'UNRAID' the drive...at least I don't think so. My promise RAID controller just wants me to setup an array before anything else and from then on everything acts like one drive. During WinXP/W2k installation... they actually give you an option of partioning it from there so you can select where to put Windows.
 
You have to create the Raid array first, from within the Raid controller bios (accessible on boot, just like the regular bios). Once the array is created, you go ahead and either partition it in DOS or from within the OS setup proggy like in W2K.

I've never had my array crash. However, it can happen. I wouldn't go nuts with the partitions; i.e. keeping everything on the array. My array is one big 78GB partition with lots of folders. I have a separate IDE HD on a PCI controller card that I use for backups. Things like Pics/UT maps/spreadsheets I have backed up on the backup HD. And I have most of the pics burned on CD. Hope this helps. 🙂
 
I've got two IBM 40GB GXP's RAIDed (0). I'm going to install a separate 3.2GB drive to ghost my Windows partition onto. Insurance against one of my 40's failing 🙂
 
can some one help me out with ghost.. i have a copy that came with one of my old mobos. where do you run it from? windows or dos? i have ~13gbs taken up that i want to back up.. how big will the ghost be?
 
The version I have came with my SystemWorks 2001 Pro. I had to make a Ghost boot floppy and run the program from it.
You can make the ghost image whatever size you want, I think. Ghost 2002 will even let you ghost images onto CDR's.
 
Sinister You will be able to Burn CD's must faster if you take that DVD off as slave to the Burner. I doubt it will write at 24X (true 24X) until you do so.

I have the same burner and once I slaved the CD-rom off a HD my 24X burner worked as advertised . just trying to help🙂
 
actually Exman.. i was thinking of that aswell. but you'll never know till youve tried it. and guess what? i can burn on the fly at 24x!! no probs at all, even when playing UT!!!!
 
if i were to ghost a drive with 13gb of files would the ghosted result be 13gb like most software do it or would it be smaller? cuz i would like to back up into that 4gb drive that i have, but if its not gonna fit then i guess i wont.
 
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