Situation about SATA

[PowerUser90_Italy]

Hello, I'm pc enthusiast, and i often help my friends in building up their
pcs.

Actually i'm able of install windows by using the F6 function, then giving
the new drivers downloaded from internet,
motherboard manufaturer.

I fight with Sil SATA, Intel ich5r Sata (875P) and a lot of them without any
problems, despide of the old drivers gived by the mobo manufaturer..
I usually meet motherboards with nforce2, kt600, nforce3, Intel 865 875, and
so on, with embedded Sata Controllers .

The real problem is when i want do a backup of the installation: Ghost and
Partition magic often requires 10 times the time to start,
cannot identify SATA HD, and so on.

I tryed all the parameters from command line from the symantec helpline,
also tried set the bios in pata mode, but currently i find it a lot
uneasy.

Almost impossible do it with a RAID SATA. How could i perform the task?

I appreciate the new technologies when they delivers boost of performance or
easy usability, but
i'm finding a lot of troubles in SATA technology

 

[Bob Harris]

I have two SATA harddrives on an ASUS motherboard. GHOST 2003 would not
recognize all partitions when run from within windows. However, GHOST 2003
and 2002 both worked fine when run from a bootable floppy. When I asked
Symantec support, they informed me that neither SATA nor RAID were
"officially" supported. They went on to say that GHOST may work on
"hardware" RAID, but that they would offer no support. Supposedly there is
a new GHOST, version 9, which is better.

I have found that Acronis TrueImage, version 7 (build 629) or 8 (all), will
work on my disks both from within windows (to backup) and from bootable CD
(to restore). I can also backup from the CD, but that is less convenient.

You might want to give them a try: www.acronis.com

 

[Bob Davis]

I have two SATA harddrives on an ASUS motherboard. GHOST 2003 would not
recognize all partitions when run from within windows. However, GHOST
2003 and 2002 both worked fine when run from a bootable floppy. When I
asked Symantec support, they informed me that neither SATA nor RAID were
"officially" supported. They went on to say that GHOST may work on
"hardware" RAID, but that they would offer no support. Supposedly there
is a new GHOST, version 9, which is better.

I've heard of Symantec's position on RAID for several years now, and for the
life of me I can't figure out how Ghost would know the difference between
two disks in a hardware RAID configuration and a single disk. The bios
shows it as a single disk and both the OS and Ghost should be none to the
wise. Find any reference to a RAID array in Windows, for example.

I used Ghost and NU on both this system with a SATA RAID (ICH5R) and an
older 440BX chipset with an off-chip Highpoint RAID using two PATA drives,
and neither system had the slightest problem. I've also run them in
numerous single-PATA systems and one single-SATA workstation. FWIW, I've
run Ghost for years, but only from a boot floppy.