Partition of C drive in RAID 1 configuration - assistance please?

[Sandy]

Greetings!

I just purchased a new computer system and am ready to install my
programs and transfer my data over from my old 'puter.

Configuration:
ASUS P5WD-2 Premium
Intel Pentium D 830 3.0 GHz Dual Core
DDR II 667 (4 X 512 MB)
Maxtor Diamond Max 300 GB SATA II X 2 in RAID 1 configuration
XP Home Ed. SP2

The dealer delivered it to me as a simple C: drive setup, but I
partitioned (using Partition Magic) the 300 GB C drive into equally
sized C and D drives in order to use the D drive for data and the C
drive primarily for OS and programs.

My question is: What about the other 300 G drive - the mirrored drive
- does it become automatically partitioned as well, or does it have to
be partitioned manually, or what?

I would appreciate any assistance or advice on this.

Thank you so much in advance.
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[Arno Wagner]

Greetings!

I just purchased a new computer system and am ready to install my
programs and transfer my data over from my old 'puter.

Configuration:
ASUS P5WD-2 Premium
Intel Pentium D 830 3.0 GHz Dual Core
DDR II 667 (4 X 512 MB)
Maxtor Diamond Max 300 GB SATA II X 2 in RAID 1 configuration
XP Home Ed. SP2

The dealer delivered it to me as a simple C: drive setup, but I
partitioned (using Partition Magic) the 300 GB C drive into equally
sized C and D drives in order to use the D drive for data and the C
drive primarily for OS and programs.

My question is: What about the other 300 G drive - the mirrored drive
- does it become automatically partitioned as well, or does it have to
be partitioned manually, or what?

I would appreciate any assistance or advice on this.

If the RAID1 is running, the drives will be byte-identical
except maybe for a potential RAID superblock, i.e. everyting
is done to both drives simultaneously. That is the whole
point of RAID1. And the RAID array does not know whether
you write normal data or data in the partition table.

Arno

 

[Sandy]

If the RAID1 is running, the drives will be byte-identical
except maybe for a potential RAID superblock, i.e. everyting
is done to both drives simultaneously. That is the whole
point of RAID1. And the RAID array does not know whether
you write normal data or data in the partition table.

Arno

Arno - thank you so much!

S.
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