Single Hard Drive Raid Setup Question

You are correct...you will use the BASE driver vs. the RAID. The drivers
are on the installation CD (unless Gigabyte has changed the way they do
things), and you will have to extract them to a floppy.

Don't install the ATA drive until you get the SATA up and running and the OS
installed, otherwise you're likely to have the Windows copy the setup files
to the ATA drive....don't know why.

If it's not too late, I would consider changing the RAM to PC3500. The GA
board has a "Performance" option in the BIOS that slightly overclocks the
system (takes mine from 200 MHz to 208, resulting in a memory speed of 416
MHz). The AMD64 system is pretty demanding of memory, and the Kingston
HyperX PC3200 I originally installed didn't do the trick (even at 200 MHz).
Mushkin Level 1 PC3500 fixed the problem (constant crashes to the desktop,
or system rebooting).

Good Luck,
Fitz

Very easily, make sure your bios boots to a cd-rom and put in a bootable cd
in the drive. When it first boots up it will say to hit F6 to install raid
drivers. Copy your raid drivers onto a floppy and when prompted by setup,
put the floopy into the drive and everything else is the same as usual. PS:
make sure your raid controler is enabled in your bios.



Juhan Leemet wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:59:43 -0500, Chris wrote:
I just ordered a brand spanking new AMD Socket 939 rig and am
currently awaiting its arrival. I decided to forgo using RAID 0
because I have concerns about one disk biting the dust and causing me
more misery than I could ever possibly want.

Yes, RAID0 (striping) is designed for speed, but doubles your
probability of loss of data (2 disks, lose either one).

You could consider creating some equal sized partitions on your 2
disks and using RAID1 (mirroring). That could give you some speed
advantage on reading, and would give you redundancy for those
partitions.

Now, on to my question, how on earth should I set up my Western
Digital Raptor Hard Drive on the SATA Raid controller, being it will
be the sole drive on that controller?

Can't help you there. Haven't used that controller. Some other(s) will
have to step up to advise on configurations of that hardware.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:41:16 GMT, "JL" wrote:

Very easily, make sure your bios boots to a cd-rom and put in a bootable cd
in the drive. When it first boots up it will say to hit F6 to install raid
drivers. Copy your raid drivers onto a floppy and when prompted by setup,
put the floopy into the drive and everything else is the same as usual. PS:
make sure your raid controler is enabled in your bios.

So in other words, it is no different than the way I would install
Windows 2000 or XP on a Promise Ultra 100 TX ATA controller card
(which I currently have in my system). Very cool, now I am awaiting
the arrival of my new toy.

For some reason, having one hard drive on a RAID controller threw me
for a loop. I blame that on lack of sleep and I vow never to stay up
from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM deciding on what computer parts to order (and
might I add changing my mind every time I got ready to hit the check
out button)!

I would like to take this moment to thank you and everyone else who
replied.

Thanks,
Chris

"Chris" == Chris writes:

Chris For some reason, having one hard drive on a RAID controller
Chris threw me for a loop. I blame that on lack of sleep and I vow
Chris never to stay up from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM deciding on what
Chris computer parts to order (and might I add changing my mind
Chris every time I got ready to hit the check out button)!

Gee - I thought I was the only one that did that!

;-))

Alan

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from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM deciding on what computer parts to order

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Juhan Leemet wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:59:43 -0500, Chris wrote:

I decided to forgo using RAID 0
because I have concerns about one disk biting the dust and causing me
more misery than I could ever possibly want.



I feel the same way about the fact that if one drive goes down you lose
everything.

Assuming drives wear out from use, I started thinking that the drives
should last twice as long

since they only work half as hard. Has anyone here ever had a raid 0
configured drive bite the dust and lose everything?

"BF" wrote in message
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Juhan Leemet wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:59:43 -0500, Chris wrote:

I decided to forgo using RAID 0
because I have concerns about one disk biting the dust and causing me
more misery than I could ever possibly want.



I feel the same way about the fact that if one drive goes down you lose
everything.

Assuming drives wear out from use, I started thinking that the drives
should last twice as long

since they only work half as hard. Has anyone here ever had a raid 0
configured drive bite the dust and lose everything?


Just back up the contents of the drive to another. The price of hard drives
is dirt cheap to do this.. why not ??