On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:42:34 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that when i sent the last mail I was as usual confused and did
> not give enough information. We will be using the Asus A7N8X Delux
> board with built in SATA raid. So its hardware raid.
>
> Also does it require that they drives sit either both on the SATA side
> or both on
> the IDE side ?
Both connect to the raid controller
>
> Does one on the ide sit on the normal primary and the second drive sit
> on the raid
> connection ?
>
> With the Sata raid I am guessing that both drives sit on the SATA bus.
>
> Do I need raid 0 or 1, it seems that I need 1, However it also seems
> to me that if you lose the primary its not so easy, unless you replace
> the drive with a duplicate
> that its that easy to recover ??
raid 0 is striping, raid 1 is mirror. Using both is best, raid 1 is
slow, but raid 0 helps speed things up a bit.
All you have to do to recover is break the mirror and reboot. That is,
you go into the hardware raid utilities and turn off raid 1, telling the
controller which disk to boot from. Hopefully, this is hot-swap stuff
so you never have to do that, just yank the bad disk while it's running
and stuff a new disk in its place. A couple hours later you should be
fully recovered.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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