- Oct 17, 2000
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I've been working on setting up my new server for 4 hours now and have reached the end of my wits...
I have a Rioworks PDB-R mobo and dual p2-400s. The hdds are 2 WD 20gb drives but they arent exactly identical, one is slightly larger than the other, i had read that this was ok it would just duplicate the size of the smaller of the 2 drives so i would lose a few mb from the larger drive but no big deal.
I installed both drives but one of them seems to not work as a master only as a slave, if i jumper it for master it isnt recognized, but on slave or cable select it is. I tried different ata cables but to no avail. Each drive is on its own cable (i.e. one on ide0 the other on ide1). I settled for this and tried to setup the array which went thru just fine in the fasttrak setup utility but when i rebooted and tried to format using fdisk I cannot delete the existing partitions that were on prior to the drives being raided...
So:
1. Will non-identical drives work?
2. Can a slave on ide0 and a master on ide1 work together in raid?
3. Do i need to fdisk the drives outside of a raid array so that they are clear before raiding them?
Thanks for your help, and any other tidbits from those of you experienced with RAID are certainly welcome...
Ok, I finally got them both to work...one seems to not want to run as a master and i had to set the other to slave as well. I copied over the i386 folder from my win2k cd and ran the install no probs, when the dos portion of the setup was done it needed to restart and i did...now it hangs at a blue screen with a message liek this:
<begin error message>
STOP: (0x000000F7, 0x003HA6F7, 0x000000G7, 0x000000A7) 0x00000007
Boot Drive failure
Recommend running chkdsk /f to resolve problems and run a virus scan, blah, blah...
<end error meassage>
What does this mean? I just got the drives so they should be fine. I'm running a full scandsk w/ surface scan as we speak but I doubt its going to help much. Ideas? Thoughts?
seems that one of the drives is bad so its RMA time, thanks for all your help tho
I have a Rioworks PDB-R mobo and dual p2-400s. The hdds are 2 WD 20gb drives but they arent exactly identical, one is slightly larger than the other, i had read that this was ok it would just duplicate the size of the smaller of the 2 drives so i would lose a few mb from the larger drive but no big deal.
I installed both drives but one of them seems to not work as a master only as a slave, if i jumper it for master it isnt recognized, but on slave or cable select it is. I tried different ata cables but to no avail. Each drive is on its own cable (i.e. one on ide0 the other on ide1). I settled for this and tried to setup the array which went thru just fine in the fasttrak setup utility but when i rebooted and tried to format using fdisk I cannot delete the existing partitions that were on prior to the drives being raided...
So:
1. Will non-identical drives work?
2. Can a slave on ide0 and a master on ide1 work together in raid?
3. Do i need to fdisk the drives outside of a raid array so that they are clear before raiding them?
Thanks for your help, and any other tidbits from those of you experienced with RAID are certainly welcome...
Ok, I finally got them both to work...one seems to not want to run as a master and i had to set the other to slave as well. I copied over the i386 folder from my win2k cd and ran the install no probs, when the dos portion of the setup was done it needed to restart and i did...now it hangs at a blue screen with a message liek this:
<begin error message>
STOP: (0x000000F7, 0x003HA6F7, 0x000000G7, 0x000000A7) 0x00000007
Boot Drive failure
Recommend running chkdsk /f to resolve problems and run a virus scan, blah, blah...
<end error meassage>
What does this mean? I just got the drives so they should be fine. I'm running a full scandsk w/ surface scan as we speak but I doubt its going to help much. Ideas? Thoughts?
seems that one of the drives is bad so its RMA time, thanks for all your help tho