TeAm Break Room - August 19 - 25

[Wolfsraider]

"CannonBall" Splash!!!!

Oh my god, Wolfsraider you shameless hussy!!!! Get your clothes on!!!



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[phicks]

I knew I shouldn't have been in here. 😱 😀

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: phicks
I knew I shouldn't have been in here. 😱 😀

Well, he's got his clothes on ... 😱 😀

Welcome, phicks, to the forum!

 

[phicks]

Thanks 😀

 

[mondobyte]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider

Originally posted by: GeoffS

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Hi Wolfsraider,
In my experience a card has to have a unique set of IDs for each drive connected to it. I have a 2-channel card and use all different IDs - and that works well. I have 4 HD, a CD-rom reader, a DVD-reader, a CD-RW, a DVD-writer and a tape-drive - all with different IDs.
Then about formatting: In my experience - and this may be outdated - it may be best if you low-level format the HD which gives you formatting errors. For the low level format you can use the utility which is in the EPROM of the SCSI-card and which you can reach (at least in Adaptec cards) by pressing Ctrl-A during the boot sequence - the card may even prompt you for that.
If you have any more Q please feel free to PM and we can pool our knowledge and experience ...


Edit: spelling...

If the drives are on different channels, you can have drives with the same SCSI id... on channel 1, you could have IDs 1-2-3-4 and on channel 2 have IDs 2-3-4-5 and you should have no problems. If you have drives with the same ID on the same channel, it surprises me that the card even recognized the drives at all...

Geoff

I got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you guys 😛

I looked and they all were set to zero.

I then made them drives 1-4

I proceeded to hook them onto the scsi cable on channel 2. only 3 drives fit the box from the stacker (120 mm fan hdd holder) I got the drives to show up as raid 5, then the drive that was bad showed up as no response. I then pulled it out and added the last drive, loaded windows and it was responsive but not fast so I raided the drives in a raid zero array lol and reloaded windows. WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Houston...We have ignition!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geoffs yeah the drives were recognized but when I formated the 2nd drive it was not showing as formatted. lol

On the server 2 drives were very snappy in the 64bit slot on this one 3 drives feels a loads faster (than the 2 drives on this one) and comared to 2 drives on the 64 bit , 2 drives here feel hardly faster than the raptors I removed. That dosen't mean they are slow just not near as zippy feeling lol

I hopevthat makes sense :Q

Anywho I am going to run some tests and see if real world meets paper or ? lol

I have one computer running raid 10 ... s/w talk smoking fast?