Re: Setting up Raid 1

Argh!!! Run, don't walk away!!! Software RAID is basically useless....

Regards,
Hank Arnold

UWRFREPORTER04 wrote:
I actually found out from another member of the IT staff that it is a software raid and that it's a feature built into Server 2003.

If anyone has a good link or site to go to that gives good instructions of how to set this up, it would be helpful.

I think where we had problems is we converted both hard drives into dynamic and only one is suppose to be converted. Thats' the little bit I understand.


Before doing anything else I suggest you find out exactly what you have on the server- is it hardware RAID, if so, what is the controller model, how is it configured, etc. Normally with hardware RAID the RAID configuration needs to be done before OS installation , using the BIOS, then loading the drivers via F6 as Cleve mentioned.



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