Re: Disk partitioning with SATA and RAID1

Mike wrote:
In message <46345fec.849486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
at 09:15:43 on Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Fred <Fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
I am constructing a system with two SATA drives and RAID1
(mirroring). I will need to partition these disks.

Should I use FDISK to do this job, the same as with IDE (parallel
ATA) ?

Is RAID transparent to the partitioning process ?

Or should I FDISK each SATA drive individaully ?

Alternatively, can I partition the SATA drives from Windows by using
Partition Magic ? Would RAID present any problem to doing this ?

Thanks for any replies,

Fred.

...I thought FDISK
had been dropped post WinME? You may have problems with large SATA
disks and WinXP SP1 for example

Fdisk is still very useful for creating/partitioning a (virgin) drive in
FAT32, whether or not one intends to use XP, ME, 98, whatever.


.

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