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RAID-0 Help...Install/Setup

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PusherRobot

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Alright I'm rather lost on this one, I have 2 - 160GB drives...both are physically installed...I have installed the Promise Card, and it sees the drives as the proper size. Not sure where to go from here...Do I need to format the drives? If so whats the best way to go about this ?

I read somewhere that you have to go into the BIOS of the card, and set it to install or something ? so it can make the array ? Like an atuo-setup..But, I can't get into the BIOS of the stupid thing for one..I've tryed alot of key combos that i found in different froums/threads...none of them want to work..Is there some kind of a boot disk i need to make with a utility on it? I'm not sure where to go with it now...Thank You
 
It should show you a BIOS screen for the Promise card when you boot (usually after the video-card BIOS and the motherboard BIOS), and it should tell you on that screen how to get into the setup utility. What Promise card is it? Did it come with a CD? Some RAID cards let you do the setup using a utility in Windows. Did it come with any documentation?
 
BIOS shows it as ultra100 tx2 all that was there was the card, the documentation is awful theres not much of anything in it..
 
Maybe the promise controller's bios won't appear unless the motherboards bios is set to boot from it.
 
Its not an onboard card its pci..and it shows the bios i just don't know the hot key to get into it and it doesn't mention anything about a hot key..
 
Nope but After looking at it for the past 24+ hours I don't think that the card is able to do RAID I've got a feeling its just a Controller Card......so i'm goingto go and buy another card and see if that does what i want it too...Gotta get to work back later thanks, any other help is good :)
 
your correct its just a controller
you could Software RAID it however ;)
 
How would I go about doing that, and compared to actually getting a raid card whats the differences ? speed? stability? basically all differences.. :D
 
well...
youd have to learn about Dynamic Disks, which is a strange dialect of Disk Management with a whole different set of pitfalls

Id recommend you read all these first
Dynamic Disks
Description of Disk Groups in Windows Disk Management
Dynamic vs. Basic Storage in Windows 2000
Basic and Dynamic Disks @ Windows & .net Magazine
HOW TO: Recover an Accidentally Deleted NTFS or FAT32 Dynamic Volume
Dynamic Disk Hardware Limitations (No firewire, USB, removable or laptop)
HOW TO: Set Up Fault-Tolerant Sets on Dynamic Disks in Windows 2000
Dynamic Disk Numbering and the DmDiag.exe Tool
HOW TO: Regenerate a Dynamic Mirrored Volume in Windows 2000
Restrictions on Extending or Spanning Simple Volumes on Dynamic Disks

Limits of Dynamic Disks in Windows 2000
LDMDump (Freeware utility) @ sysinternals
LDM Database @ Linux-NTFS project
LDM FAQ @ Linux-NTFS project

once you "upgrade" a disk to a Dynamic from a Basic,
you cant revert it in Windows without loosing the data,
there are a few 3rd party aps that will do it but they cost

when comparing it to a budget RAID card, your likely to have similar CPU overhead
but with a higher end RAID card that would be reduced

rescue and repair operations are complicated by Dynamic Disks
and you cant Image them with aps like Ghost
 
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