- Feb 22, 2001
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Obviously it's impossible by definition. However - I have the (now infamous?) MSI board with the Promise controller, and a pair of 45 Gig IBM's. Everything works well in RAID for a week or two, and then the problems begin. Files start to get corrupted ? they won?t open anymore, whether they are a program, MP3, a game, whatever. Try to access it and you get a strange noise from the drive, like a series of scratches in a row, then a pause, the same series of noises again, then BSOD.
So ? screw it for now. IDE RAID?s a nice idea but my drives don?t like it. I want to leave the two drives hooked up but not in RAID configuration. How? I can access the drives when set up like any normal drive, but the Promise BIOS screen hangs up because it can?t find a RAID device. The other option I found is this: attach only one drive, and let the Promise panel call it RAID. It does it ? I don?t know how, but it thinks it sets it up that way. Then yank that drive, insert the other, and repeat. Now both can be reattached. They appear as two distinct drives in Windows, and it won?t hang up the boot.
My question (finally) is: What kind of set up is that? If it thinks it makes RAID from a single drive ? is it dividing the drive in half and attempting to run it as though it were two? Or is it just a stupid label it puts on it when it knows darn well that it?s the only drive there. Does my question make sense? What I need to figure out is: what?s the best way to use those two extra IDE ports, without using the RAID feature?
So ? screw it for now. IDE RAID?s a nice idea but my drives don?t like it. I want to leave the two drives hooked up but not in RAID configuration. How? I can access the drives when set up like any normal drive, but the Promise BIOS screen hangs up because it can?t find a RAID device. The other option I found is this: attach only one drive, and let the Promise panel call it RAID. It does it ? I don?t know how, but it thinks it sets it up that way. Then yank that drive, insert the other, and repeat. Now both can be reattached. They appear as two distinct drives in Windows, and it won?t hang up the boot.
My question (finally) is: What kind of set up is that? If it thinks it makes RAID from a single drive ? is it dividing the drive in half and attempting to run it as though it were two? Or is it just a stupid label it puts on it when it knows darn well that it?s the only drive there. Does my question make sense? What I need to figure out is: what?s the best way to use those two extra IDE ports, without using the RAID feature?
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