Re: a good PC?
- From: Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:32:14 +0000
John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:47:26 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm stuck with Windows...
Who isn't ?
too many apps that I use need the pig.
Quite so and when it works well, Windows is just fine.
"When it works well"!
My newest PC had a RAID controller and I liked it when one of the mirror pair started >acting up. I
got a replacement drive on ebay as it happens, the same model, but if you go down that route you may
want to buy 3 identical drives anyway to begin with. The controller in mine ( Highpoint ) >has some
facility to prepare a 3rd drive it seems although I just used the standard rebuild facility.
Graham
How do you manage the RAID stuff, declaring pairings, updating the
image on a replacement drive, things like that? Are there utilities,
or things built into the BIOS?
I'm just doing RAID 1 ( mirroring ).
That wasn't difficult at all. I'm just trying to remember the details. I think you had to fdisk the
drives ( this was Win 98 ) and the the controller BIOS did most of the rest.
When Windows 98 was installed, you the needed to add the 32-bit RAID driver ( or it would have worked
slower ).
With XP you have to declare you're installing a RAID controller early on in the install if it's not a
Windows supported device ( how you know in advance I haven't yet figured ).
When that drive of mine went down it was simply a matter of replacing the drive with a ready partitioned
one ( but it doesn't need to be formatted ) and asking the RAID BIOS to rebuild the mirror ( it prompts
you anyway ). The Highpoint BIOS is a very slight example of Chinglish though but can be understood !
Graham
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