If you've four drives on one controller you can go raid 3... The trouble
with going raid across two controllers is that the likelihood of system
failure is increased... -at least that's how I understand it. (We are
running a raid 3 single controller linux box). Are you running hardware
raid, if so then are you sure the decoding can be shared across
controllers?

Cheers MC


Jonathan Ganz wrote:

I've been using NTFS exclusively for many years.

The problem is that I've successfully mirrored the first two HDs,
but I can't seem to get the second two to be recognized by the
bios. They're on the same SATA controller. If I put them on the
other SATA controller, then no problem, but if I do that, then
I can't stripe across controllers, which is the whole point. There
must be something in the bios that's screwy. I just updated to
the lastest version of the bios, so it can't be that (didn't work
with the older version either).

"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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What's the problem? You are using NTFS?

Cheers MC

Jonathan Ganz wrote:


Actually, I'm in the process of building a raid system... 4 - 200 gig

ata

serial drives,
P4, 3.06 processor, XP Pro, Abit IC7-Max3 mb., 2 gigs ram. I'm doing

raid

0+1
and having a bit of trouble with part of the configuration.

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Your computer working OK this last few days?

S.Simon


"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message

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