on 11/12/01 12:22 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To Preben: > > Thanks for your response and patience. The Abit board does permit JBOD; but > it does not provide RAID 5 as you have noted. When I asked about what > appeared to be a contradiction between what you suggested and what the ABIT > manual said I did not realize that there was a RAID 5 and that this was what > you were referring to. I apologize for my ignorance; but I am not sorry I > asked. Out of my asking, I learned about RAID 5, which I would not have > known about if I did not raise my question about the apparent contradiction. > > To all who have posted on the subject of RAID: > > Thank you; it has been an education. I have a few additional questions that > I need to be educated on and would appreciate any information that you could > provide me. > > (1) If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks, must each hard > drive be the master on a separate IDE channel or can they be set up as > master-slave on the same IDE channel?
Actually, both must be set up on the same IDE channel as masters. There is a procedure to follow before doing so, but this is the end result. > > (2) If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks under WIN 98, can > one establish partitions for the array or must it be a single partition? In > formatting the drives to be used in a RAID array, how does one format each > of the disks with Fdisk (each disk being a brand new disk) with respect to > partitions? Each is first done separately, but then there are steps to follow before arriving at the end result. Check the website of www.storagereview.com for details. They have a great article on setting up RAID arrays. > > (3)If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks under WIN 98, can > one use utilities such as ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter on the RAID array, > on individual hard drive disks in the array, or - if logical partitions are > usable with the array or disks in the array - on the partitions? Yes. Both disc are effectively one disk when properly set up. Remember, data is being striped to both as if they are one disc. Jim Snyder
