> What kinds of problems with xp so I can check.<snip> I started off thinking I would use XP Pro to undertake software RAID (just like you can in W2000) only to discover it is not a feature of XP! (you can only span or stripe disks) So I bought a couple of RAID IDE cards from Maplins.
In a rather (hindsight) gung ho approach to this particular PC, I installed two raid cards with 4 discs on each. One of the disks was my (C:) boot drive,(to be)paired with an unused identical hdd. The system booted ok at this stage, so I proceeded to use the raid card bios to set up raid sets on each ide channel. At that point bye-bye OS! XP just would not boot at all, even after I backed out all my changes (including removing new raid cards etc.) which was a bit frustrating :-( I suspect something to do with how the raid card bios marks the physical drive as part of a raid set - but I didn't feel like conducting further experiments with my boot drive. Fortunately I had taken sufficient back-up measure and, with some effort restored the PC to a working condition. All this is ironic when the objective of mirroring the C: drive was to provide a greater level of resilience. So currently not mirroring drives under XP - but would like to hear of others experience... BTW - striping a couple of drives to use as scratch/cache space under XP Pro does give a significant speed improvement (stripe drives over different IDE controllers) - but of course no fault tolerance, so would only recommend for scratch type uses. HTH Phil =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
