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Anyone give me a step by step to setting up raid 0?
Or a link to it, of course?
I have a Giga GA - 7N400 Pro2 mobo running a stable 1700+. winXP system. However, it will soon get a major makeover including... 3200+ CPU, 2 x 512 meg Crucial PC3200's, Zalman 400w noisless (bliss) PSU, 9800 pro 128meg graphics, and crucially 3 x Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache Assuming I assemble the hardware without blowing anything up, I want to run two of the HDD's in raid 0 for data transfer speed. (I know, the most fragile way of doing it, but thats a seperate issue ATM). I also want to dual boot. (Had a good read of http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/, very good info). So can anyone tell me exactly what I need to do to run in raid0? I have never used raid before. I assume... At power up, go into bios and enable raid. [do I enable / disable anything else?] During boot, press whatever keys the bios says to set up raid and make the bios see them as one HDD with 320 gig capacity. Use partition magic to set up the required partitions and format them. Install Os's as per above link. Get the latest drivers for raid for the OS's? I'm sure there's much more to it, so could some kind soul fill in the blanks in as much detail as they feel like doing? It would help an old man in his dotage very much! Well, I feel old sometimes, anyway. Thanks in advance. -- Regards from Mike Barnard South Coast, UK. [To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address] |
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On 9-Apr-2004, Mike Barnard wrote: Or a link to it, of course? I have a Giga GA - 7N400 Pro2 mobo running a stable 1700+. winXP system. However, it will soon get a major makeover including... 3200+ CPU, 2 x 512 meg Crucial PC3200's, Zalman 400w noisless (bliss) PSU, 9800 pro 128meg graphics, and crucially 3 x Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache Assuming I assemble the hardware without blowing anything up, I want to run two of the HDD's in raid 0 for data transfer speed. (I know, the most fragile way of doing it, but thats a seperate issue ATM). I also want to dual boot. (Had a good read of http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/, very good info). So can anyone tell me exactly what I need to do to run in raid0? I have never used raid before. I assume... At power up, go into bios and enable raid. [do I enable / disable anything else?] During boot, press whatever keys the bios says to set up raid and make the bios see them as one HDD with 320 gig capacity. Use partition magic to set up the required partitions and format them. Install Os's as per above link. Get the latest drivers for raid for the OS's? I'm sure there's much more to it, so could some kind soul fill in the blanks in as much detail as they feel like doing? It would help an old man in his dotage very much! Well, I feel old sometimes, anyway. Thanks in advance. -- Regards from Mike Barnard South Coast, UK. [To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address] Extract the RAID driver from the mainboard CD to a floppy. Windows will ask for it at the beginning. You've pretty much got the rest right. The raid driver came on the mainboard CD not on the Windows CD. If you have any problem, send me a message. I just went through this on a GA-K8NNXP And set up a RAID0 SATA and a RAID1 IDE. -- |
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Nope you'll need to extract the drivers to floppy before hand (and be sure
to test them). Also, you'll need a conventional floppy drive to install them from, for all its wiz bang support XP install doesnt yet cope with USB floppy drives or even SuperDisk IDE floppys! CrimsonLiar "Mike Barnard" wrote in message ... On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:38:32 GMT, wrote: Extract the RAID driver from the mainboard CD to a floppy. Windows will ask for it at the beginning. Surley by time I'm instaling windows I'll have a CD up and running? Still, I suppose it stops me removing the install CD during install. Good tip, thanks. |
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:37:31 +0100, "CrimsonLiar"
wrote: Nope you'll need to extract the drivers to floppy before hand (and be sure to test them). Also, you'll need a conventional floppy drive to install OK, I'll do that. Thanks. -- Regards from Mike Barnard South Coast, UK. [To reply by email remove ".trousers" spamtrap from email address] |
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I also want to dual boot.
I use a RAID0 array (with two Western Digital 40MB drives) using my 8KNXP's IT8212F IDE RAID driver, primarily with Linux, and it works like a charm. I think that the 7N400 uses the same chip (a cursory Google search seems to indicate that). You might find it useful to know that you can download the latest software drivers (for Linux and Windows, as well as their source code) directly from the ITE site: http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Do...3%20Controller -kris |
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