Re: Converting Boot/System Disk to Dynamic Disk

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Hi Gregg:

Can you provide some documentation as to why the OP, and presumably others,
should avoid software RAID? I have found it to very reliable and easier to
manage than many of the on-board "RAID" controllers that will not allow one
to add a drive after the OS is installed, or that lose the RAID settings if
both of the drives are removed and force one to begin again.

If anyone knows of a source for info regarding manageable on-board
controllers, that would be a great resource.

I wholeheartedly agree that the "best" RAID controllers are discrete add-on
cards, but for some they are fairly pricey.
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"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is safe and is required if you will be using software RAID, which
brings
me to my next comment. AVOID software RAID. Buy a hardware RAID controller
instead.

Gregg Hill


"denko" <denko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a SBS2003 installation with two HDD's. Disk 0 has two
partitions -
one partition contains the boot/system files and the second partition
contains data. I want to use the second disk to create a software
mirror
of
the data partition on disk 0.

When SBS2003 installed, it created disk 0 as a "basic" disk and I know
it
needs to be a dynamic disk before I can mirror it. I see that I an
option
exists to convert diski 0 to dynamic.

My question and concern is that will the system still boot fine and will
that partition be undisturbed when I've finished the dynamic conversion.
I
checked the conversion steps and there seems to be a lot of warnings
concerning converting the boot/system disk.

Any help/guidance would be appreciated.





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