Re: Dell Raid Questions
- From: "Just the Facts" <me@whereever>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:02:06 +0900
"S.Lewis" <Gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:y_0oj.87966$K27.83661@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Just the Facts" <me@whereever> wrote in message news:47a09836$0$22559$5a62ac22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI'm a software developer but when it comes to hardware I get lost in the
jargon.
I have a few dell Precision machines I got cheap at the auctions, I'm using
as cheap web servers with Win2003 and one with WinSBS 2000, I also have one
with Vista.
They have SATA 80 gig hard drives in them, they are configured in the bios
raid section to use combination mode.
I have several Sata hard drives of the same make and model and I want to set
up a simple raid 1 system for redundancy.
If I try to change the raid configuration to the default auto detect raid, I
get a warning that I may not be able to boot and that I may need to
reinstall, so I have not done so.
My questions are
Will I lose my data if I switch to raid auto detect?
What is raid Auto detect?
Is this a built in raid system?
If so what do I need to do, just plug in 2 disks?
If anyone has any info on Dell precisions and raid I would appreciate any
info you can give
Thanks
Could you please post the specific model number of the Precision workstations in question? That'll help a lot.
My initial feeling is that you may probably be able to add a second drive and with the proper BIOS settings, allow the RAID1 configuration to be "rebuilt", though I am not positive.
Stew
the machines are Dell precision 370s and 360s
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