which group to use?

[Ray]

I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had built.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410 chipset.
I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want to set these up
in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.

Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to discuss
this matter - or should i post to all?

TIA
R

 

[Tom]

I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had built.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410
chipset.
I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want to set these
up
in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.

Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to discuss
this matter - or should i post to all?

TIA
R

See if this helps:
http://members.shaw.ca/xtremecomputing/RAID.htm

If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what groups, it
is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than three groups. Hardware,
and General groups would be my first two for sure, add a third as you see
fit.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had
built. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410
chipset. I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want
to set these up in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.

Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to
discuss this matter - or should i post to all?

TIA
R

You can cross post to all five, but it is usually best to limit cross posts
to three relevant groups.
The groups you posted to were all relevant, but I would go for general,
hardware, and setup_deployment.
You didn't state your problem, so describe the problem and include as much
detail as brief and concise as possible.
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

 

[xfile]

Another suggestion for you to consider:

(1) Refer to your MB manual and see if there are any instructions, BIOS
settings, and/or drivers needed to be done before, during, and after your
installations.

(2) You should also know the chipset used by the MB as it should be listed
on the box and manual, you may also go to chipset provider's site (e.g.
Intel provides lots of information and necessary drivers which may as well
included in your MB CD) to check if any thing needs to be done.

But reading your MB manual is definitely a good place to start with.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I've a problem. I'm new to win xp and to the new system I've had built.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro.
This has an on-board SATA RAID ICH6R chipset and an IDE RAID VT6410 chipset.
I have 2 Hitachi 160GB SATA 7200RPM hard drives and I want to set these up
in a RAID ) configuration and use Win XP pro.

Which of the five groups (or any other group) should I be using to discuss
this matter - or should i post to all?

TIA
R

Try another news server. Look for comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
newsgroup
They have people versed in what you're looking to do. Let them know you're
running XP and what if any SP, as well as the hardware you've noted.

 

[kurttrail]

See if this helps:
http://members.shaw.ca/xtremecomputing/RAID.htm

If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what
groups, it is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than three
groups. Hardware, and General groups would be my first two for sure,
add a third as you see fit.

I don't generally accept your three group maximum. I find a five group
limit is sufficient.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Ray.

I agree with Lil' Dave. Your questions are really about the Gigabyte mobo
and its onboard hardware and BIOS settings. You won't need WinXP advice
until after you get the HD/controller/RAID/BIOS issues cleared up. You
would probably get some good answers from non-Microsoft newsgroups in
Usenet. In addition to the one Dave mentioned, how about:
alt.comp.periphs.gigabyte or
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte

You should find plenty of Gigabyte gurus there. They can help you read the
mobo user's manual. ;^} (I can sympathize. To understand my EPoX mobo and
read its manual, I subscribe to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.epox.)

RC

 

[Ken Blake]

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If you have further needs, come back. As far as posting to what
groups, it is generally accepted to cross-post to no more than
three
groups.

There's no such number of groups that everyone agrees on.
Cross-posting gets a bad reputation mostly because it's a tool of
spammers who post to many groups and unrelated ones.

But there's nothing wrong with legitimate, non-spamming
cross-posting, even to more than three groups. If the groups are
related to each other, and all appropriate for the question being
asked, I don't have any problem with posting to more than three
groups. I usually recommend cross-posting to only a "few" related
groups, with "few" purposely left undefined. The only reason I
even say a "few" is to try to discourage a shotgun approach,
where someone for example might post to *every* Windows group in
the remote hope that one of them might get him the answer he
wants.

 

[Tom]

I don't generally accept your three group maximum. I find a five group
limit is sufficient.

It's not my three really, but reading posts through the years seeing it
work. I don't think five is too much, but what I say is really preference,
as much as yours is 5 .

 

[Tom]

In



There's no such number of groups that everyone agrees on. Cross-posting
gets a bad reputation mostly because it's a tool of spammers who post to
many groups and unrelated ones.

But there's nothing wrong with legitimate, non-spamming cross-posting,
even to more than three groups. If the groups are related to each other,
and all appropriate for the question being asked, I don't have any problem
with posting to more than three groups. I usually recommend cross-posting
to only a "few" related groups, with "few" purposely left undefined. The
only reason I even say a "few" is to try to discourage a shotgun approach,
where someone for example might post to *every* Windows group in the
remote hope that one of them might get him the answer he wants.

As I explained to kurt, it is really three being my prefernce, but I don't
mind a few more, I only gave "what I thought" was acceptable, since the OP
asked regarding it. I have seen quite a few (even experts here) quote the "3
limit" preference, or general rule, but that it all it is to me, "general".
But if one were to post to many more (e.g. 6+), than your point of
shot-gunning becomes more the point, than the request for help.

 

[RoS]

Thanks for the info. I've sent a new post to the three "most likely" and to
the Gigabyte gurus - thanks RC White for that tip.
I'm using the Win Xp groups as well - a friendlier lot on these!
RoS

 

[Husky]

I just caught the tail of this but b4 you commit to RAID, you should ask
yourself if you're running a public server and really need such a setup ?
Really read up on RAID. It's something designed for commercial operations that
require INSTANT backups. Home use is a waste of a good drive or in another case
two drives.