Using Raid as your primary drive under XP - NIGHTMARES
I am a tech, not a home user. While I may not be the brightest bulb on the planet I'm certaintly not without an occasional flash or two.
Here is the problem...
Installing XP to a raid array is NOT the issue. (F6, latest drivers, etc etc) The issue rears its head later in the game in the form of an unbootable machine. BAD HIVE. Win2K recovers from the problem a little more gracefully by initiating a scandisk every so many reboots. XP just bombs. But why.
I'm thinking the problem has to be tied to the raid and or raid caching... but I am open to ideas.
With the wide proliferation of IDE Raid systems out there today I have to believe that I am not the only one experiencing the problem - WHAT IS THE FIX?
Between myself and two others that have been playing the the newer IDE raid solutions available, we have worked with and experienced the same results with 3 different boards from Gigabyte, MSI and ABIT. Both the Promise and HP controllers experience the same difficulty. Three brands of identically matched drives - various memory and other hardware configs... etc etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
NOTE: This post is NOT an effort to invoke the debate over the use or disuse of RAID, performance misinformation, etc etc. - I am simply seeking help from someone that has seen or experienced the same problem and found a solution.
Thanks in advance.
I am a tech, not a home user. While I may not be the brightest bulb on the planet I'm certaintly not without an occasional flash or two.
Here is the problem...
Installing XP to a raid array is NOT the issue. (F6, latest drivers, etc etc) The issue rears its head later in the game in the form of an unbootable machine. BAD HIVE. Win2K recovers from the problem a little more gracefully by initiating a scandisk every so many reboots. XP just bombs. But why.
I'm thinking the problem has to be tied to the raid and or raid caching... but I am open to ideas.
With the wide proliferation of IDE Raid systems out there today I have to believe that I am not the only one experiencing the problem - WHAT IS THE FIX?
Between myself and two others that have been playing the the newer IDE raid solutions available, we have worked with and experienced the same results with 3 different boards from Gigabyte, MSI and ABIT. Both the Promise and HP controllers experience the same difficulty. Three brands of identically matched drives - various memory and other hardware configs... etc etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
NOTE: This post is NOT an effort to invoke the debate over the use or disuse of RAID, performance misinformation, etc etc. - I am simply seeking help from someone that has seen or experienced the same problem and found a solution.
Thanks in advance.
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