SATA and RIAD 1

From: dw (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04


Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:48:58 -0700

I'm wondering if you actually have a hardware raid
controller, in which case you will only see drive C, not
the mirror, and you do not need to set up software raid 1
if you have a hardware raid controller.
>-----Original Message-----
>I just did my first SBS 2003 install. The setup included
two SATA WD 74GB drives that I wanted to mirror in RAID 1.
>
>When I finally got the OS to recognize the two drives, I
was unable to find any way to convert the Dynamic disk on
the mirrored drive into Unallocated space, which is
required to make the mirror.
>
>Finally, I just went with the BIOS setting for a RAID 1
setup. The BIOS is an nVidia nForce 6A61BA1BC-24.
>
>Now, I can only see one drive, "C", from the disk
management in the OS, so I apparently have no way to
monitor the health of the drives.
>
>Has anyone else gotten the OS to install a RAID 1 array
with SATA drives?
>
>TIA
>
>Rick
>.
>



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