Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!

"Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message
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just bob wrote:

Maybe I'm wrong but a real RAID system does not need drivers to
install the OS. The OS should see it as one physical hard drive. The
only thing you need RAID drivers for is to talk to some sort of
monitor software which talks to the RAID controller and alerts you
when a drive has a problem, and usually this is installed after the
OS is up and running.

You are wrong. Look at it this way. You need the drivers to control the
RAID card not the drives themselves. Even a simple Adaptec SCSI card
needs
drivers. These drives might already be included in the OS of your choice,
maybe not.

This is from many years of working with RAID on enterprise-class
windows servers which may not be the same with XP, but I can't think
of why it shouldn't be the same.

Didn't do much hardware configuration, did you?

Never worked with enterprise class servers, did you?

Embedded raid controllers - all setup is in the BIOS. No drivers required. I
feel for you guys working with consumer crap.

"just bob" kilbyfan@aoldotcom wrote in message
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"Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message
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just bob wrote:

Maybe I'm wrong but a real RAID system does not need drivers to
install the OS. The OS should see it as one physical hard drive. The
only thing you need RAID drivers for is to talk to some sort of
monitor software which talks to the RAID controller and alerts you
when a drive has a problem, and usually this is installed after the
OS is up and running.

You are wrong. Look at it this way. You need the drivers to control the
RAID card not the drives themselves. Even a simple Adaptec SCSI card
needs
drivers. These drives might already be included in the OS of your
choice,
maybe not.

This is from many years of working with RAID on enterprise-class
windows servers which may not be the same with XP, but I can't think
of why it shouldn't be the same.

Didn't do much hardware configuration, did you?

Never worked with enterprise class servers, did you?

Yep. Lots.

Embedded raid controllers - all setup is in the BIOS.

You configure the RAID arrays and LUNs in the controller BIOS, as you do
with most 'consumer crap'.

No drivers required.

That's where you are wrong. It's just that most enterprise OS's already
contain the required drivers for the RAID controllers. Either that or you
use the OEM CD (HP Smartstart etc.) to bootstrap the installer, in which
case the OEM disk contains the drivers.
Try installing Windows 2000 (or even 2003) server on a fairly new server
without using the OEM disk and you will fall flat on your face.

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Kwyj.