WinXP Home and Raid1

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Fed up with losing another IDE drive--and data caught between backups,
I have purchased a Startech Dual Channel Ultra ATA/100 RAID PCI
Card--and two new IDE drives. The bios on the controller has
configured the two drives as one mirrored set, but WinXP doesn't seem
to notice. Is there setup required in WinXP to get it to recognize
the drives as one RAID set?? Do I have to "Repair" or reload WinXP
Home??
 
trenoweth said:
Fed up with losing another IDE drive--and data caught between backups,
I have purchased a Startech Dual Channel Ultra ATA/100 RAID PCI
Card--and two new IDE drives. The bios on the controller has
configured the two drives as one mirrored set, but WinXP doesn't seem
to notice. Is there setup required in WinXP to get it to recognize
the drives as one RAID set?? Do I have to "Repair" or reload WinXP
Home??
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Windows XP does not support mirrored drives. But you don't need it to.
Your controller card is handling it at the hardware level, making it
invisible to Windows.

Tim C
MCDST, MCST
 
Thanks for that info. I was wondering if it was just XPHome or if it
was not supported by the whole product set.
This leads, however, to a greater problem. When I create the disk set
and do the copy function in the BIOS, only a portion of the 7 gigs
actually gets copied over to the mirroring drive. The first time on
600K moved over and the second time about 4 gigs moved over. Also I
tried creating a (word) document and seeing if it appeared on both
drives after saving it, and it did not. Of course that delimma is
based on the assumption that RAID1 is real-time, and doesn't have some
delay built into it. The "copy" function in the RAID BIOS took
several (3-6) hours.
Any ideas there? Crappy hardware maybe?
thanks again!!
 
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