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Programming Raid Controller

DTA01 — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:52:45 +0000

I know there is software raid and hardware raid. Do you program them the same way? As well do the controller’s have to match drives such as SATA or SCSI? Please forgive this basic question I am new at this stuff.

SATA hard drive, unable to get it to work in my computer.

Dion — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:38:07 +0000

Can it be a problem with my power supply that the BIOS detects it now and then (most of the time NOT!) I cannot understand THIS. The drive receive power -it spins! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!! all of the drive cables was now replaced. The drive work on other computers -NOT ON MYN!

How can I use fibre channel hard disk in SATA or IDE port

Chetanm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:26:44 +0000

how can I use fibler channle hard disk in sata or IDE port

Computer does not detect SATA hard drive in BIOS

Dion — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:32:52 +0000

PLEASE HELP!!!
Brand new hard drive 160Gb Samsung SATA. BIOS does not detect it, tried everything.
From replacing the “data cables”, “power converter plugs” on the power supply, upgrading my BIOS. There is no RAID setting in my BIOS only the option to “enable/disable SATA”. The BIOS detect it once and I installed my operating system, after the first boot (no hard drive!!!).
The BIOS tries to detect my previous hard drive that crashed when I connect it, but with this new one it does not even try to detect it. I took it back to the company for testing where I baught it and there is nogthing wrong with it. What now!! Could it be my power supply or mother board.

Is SATA II disks adequate for running VMs

BringITon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:17:47 +0000

I built a Hyper-V server, which has a 6 channel SATA II controller. I will use one disk to run he host OS (Windows 2008 Server Enterprise – Core) and will use the remaining 5 SATA II disks to run VMs on. In addition the system has the capacity to hold 32GB RAM, and has 2 Quad CPU sockets. My question is, is the use of SATA II disks adequate for concurrently running, 5 to 10 virtual machines, assuming I have allocated enough memory and CPU to the VMs? Does SATA II disk throughput work well for running multiple VMS on the host. The VMS will be used for light testing – they are not being used for production work, but instead, for testing specific bugs in our products. So, various developers will be starting some VMS, running some code, reproducing the bug,then analyzing it. There will not be much sustained computing occuring on any of the VMs. But even if that were the case would the SATA II disks be adequate anyways? Or, will I need to get a SAS add on disk controller card and SAS disks to run the VMs on? As you might be able to tell, the system is being put into use in a Q&A lab environment.

Raid 0 Set up internal to external drive

Williamsson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:19:17 +0000

I have a Dell 420xps. It came with a 320gb sata drive. I have added a 500gb “internal” hard drive. I also added a 250gb USB “external” hard drive and a 500gb eSata “external” hard drive. I would like to run raid 0 on the 500gb internal and 500gb external and leave the other 2 as they are. Can this be done? and would it be worth while to do so,”I do not know if e-sata and sata can run raid 0 together” or should I brake open the external drive and install it as a internal drive? The 500gb “internal” hard drive is a maxtor sata 2/300 16mb cache 7200rpm. The “external” hard drive is a My Book home eddition 500gb Serial Transfer Rate eSATA Serial Bus Transfer Rate (eSATA) 3 Gb/s (Max)

Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive

Brenger — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:54:37 +0000

First: Got a new Vista machine (pentium Dual Core Processor) w/SATA hard drive. Want to install a 5 year old 40 gig Western Digital IDE drive as a slave for storage. The motherboard has what looks like a connection for an IDE drive. The connection on the board is blue to match the blue end of the IDE 80 wire ribbon cable. Therefore I’m making an assumption. Someone at Best Buy said if I installed a drive that old it could blow up my new computer. Doesn’t sound right, but thought I’d check it out first. I haven’t messed with pc hardware for about 5 years and everything has changed. I’m also assuming a ribbon cable will work, and I don’t need to buy one of those new round ones.

Second: how do I set the jumpers. The SATA has 4 sets of 2. Definely not the same as the 5 sets of 2 on the IDE. Do I need to set SATA as master and IDE as slave?

Any tips?

USB SATA/IDE adapter

HulkIT — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:26:02 +0000

I can not get into the files from the old sata drive? How can i get into the files with out placing the old hdd back into the case