Re: Upgrading to Hardware RAID SBS2000

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: StudioTwo (studio_two_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 02:57:21 -0700

That was exactly the info I was looking for.

I have not yet bought a RAID card, but I have an Intel STL2 server
board. Intel recommends fitting the SRCU31.

I guess I could also look Adaptec & Promise.
Did you have any recommendations?

Thanks,
Stephen

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@your.nellie> wrote in message news:<eMz1ctTpEHA.3848@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> depends on the RAID controller but as a general rule I'd suggest putting the
> controller in and booting your system with the drive connected to the
> current controller. Prug'n'pray should detect the RAID and allow you to
> install the drivers. Then shutdown and move the drive to the RAID
> controller. She should then boot (but may not).
>
> Whether the drive is visible or not will also depend on the controller. Some
> controllers will automatically present the drive as a simple disk, others
> need to be told to create an array as a single disk JBOD.
>
> Then there's a gotcha!!! (don't ya love 'em) We recently purchased an
> Adaptec card which would not allow you to create a mirror set from an
> existing drive and a new partner, the mirror creation process was
> destructive (ie. it would create the mirror by initialising the drives),
> funny thing was that once the array existed it could, with the addition of
> other drives, be migrated non-destructively between RAID levels.
>
> What RAID card?
>
> I suggest seeing if we can get as far as:
> 1) loading the drivers and management software for the controller with the
> HDD connected to it's current controller.
> 2) see if she boots
>
> OHHHH, and yes, step 0 should be to back up everything and/or image her.
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: bad blocks on raid5 cause filesystem failure
    ... It is setup in in RAID 5. ... How could a RAID controller botch this up? ... should be rebuilt on spare drive if available from remaining drives. ... All is fine unless you have double fault. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Re: Upgrading to Hardware RAID SBS2000
    ... depends on the RAID controller but as a general rule I'd suggest putting the ... Prug'n'pray should detect the RAID and allow you to ... other drives, be migrated non-destructively between RAID levels. ... > for installing a HW RAID card into an existing server? ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
  • Re: Freedos 1.1 Released some days ago
    ... If you have a SATA-1 controller then there should be win-98 drivers ... If your SATA controller is a SiL 3112/3114 chip then ... RAID requires *two* drives, ...
    (comp.os.msdos.misc)
  • Re: Dell PERC 2/SC Single Channel LVD SCSI RAID Controller
    ... 2/SC) PCI RAID controller is a high performance intelligent PCI-to-SCSI ... PERC 2/SC is an ideal RAID solution for the internal ... Multiple logical drives/arrays per controller Up to 8 logical drives ...
    (uk.adverts.computer)
  • Re: SATA vs. SCSI, RAID?
    ... Also this would depend on which controller is ... Well MS's intrinsic SW RAID 1 drivers using typical Intel mobo EIDE ... controllers for ATA or Adaptec SCSI non-RAID cards do very well here. ... But do note that I only mentioned "3x drives ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)