Operation Delta 3 - 003

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(Hmmmm...works now).

Steve: Noticed it takes a loooonnnng time for an original or edit to "register". Don't know if that's a clue for the admins or not...

[This message has been edited by bistro (edited 09-07-2001).]

so it ain't toast?

GG1, forget bigfoots.
let us know what happened to the bigfoot drive in other thread?

we can perhaps reclaim most of it by a judicious use of datarecovery onto other disk, and then fdisking it to get around damaged portion..

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Kind regards, Jaak

Greengoose1: Just a suggestion--start a new thread before this one "goes south" again. Let us know if you've come to any decisions (or near-decisions https://discussions.virtualdr.com/) concerning the build. (And maybe an update to that Compaq--or keep that subject in the "Compaq" thread).
Meanwhile, I'll be writing the screenplay for "Operation Delta 3"...HBO wants to do the movie....

Hello all,
Before I ask a question I just like to say I have enjoyed reading the Operation Delta series they have been so helpful and easy to understand Its great to see you have not lost site of the fact we all have to start somewhere in the computer world...thanks everyone

Ok I don't know if I'm supposed ask questions here but you seem to be talking on Motherboards with Raid on board amongst other things...I have been looking around for a new M/B and I have this one in mind ABIT KG7 with Raid on Board... I was under the assumption Raid was a chip or something that allowed extra IDE ports like a promise card,

My dumb question is what is raid and what is it for?

I have a CD Burner,CD Rom, and 2 Hard Drives, I want to buy a DVD Rom and 1 extra Hard Drive so you can see I need at least 3 places for IDE devices...I guess I could take out the Rom and just use either the DVD Rom and or the Burner and just get 2 bigger drives but I don't see the point as the ones I have are still in really good condition

If I am wrong and raid is not what I think is. What do you look for on a M/B to give you more IDE ports. I have noticed that a lot of motherboards are standard with the 2 IDE ports

Thank you
salamanda

RAID is what you yell as you go up into the attic...to scare the spiders away.
(Sorry...couldn't resist..)

Actually, this article explains it more succinctly than I would. (In a nutshell, you are spreading the data over multiple disks and/or making mirror images of the data--increases speed/performance and will have data backed up "automatically". That's a very, very simplistic explanation, believe me) https://discussions.virtualdr.com/. Not for the "average" user...
As far as a mobo and those "extra" IDE's, the Abit SA6R is a good example (Pictured here)--notice it has two orange ATA connections (for the hard drives--up to 4) and two (blue) IDE connections (for up to 4 devices), for a total of 8-instead of the usual four. Article on this mobo also explains RAID capability.


[This message has been edited by bistro (edited 09-07-2001).]

hi

I once experimented with RAID, and have decided to not use it with only two drives.
a secure and fast RAID on these highpoint chips (promise use them too) would need FOUR identical model drives.
this way, one can have the speed of reading off two drives, and the security of the mirror drives.

without mirrorred drives, the risk of losing all data from BOTH drives is too great, IMHO.

(in other words, with only two drives in the RAID setup, and the two drives set up as a striped raid for speed...rather than mirrored for security, the risk is very real. You see, only one drive has to fail and one loses everything on both.

besides, the drives are blindingly fast on this controller in a NON-RAID setup, so I saw no real reason to stick to RAID.
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Kind regards, Jaak

[This message has been edited by jtdoom (edited 09-08-2001).]

Operation Delta 3 - 004 is the continuation of this thread.

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