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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
"Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message ... 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. |
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Installing XP on Sata Raid - ARRGGH !!
"just bob" kilbyfan@aoldotcom wrote in message ... "Rita Ä Berkowitz" ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote in message ... 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. -- Kwyj. |
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