rogerdugans
08-14-03, 03:56 PM
I have a rather weird situation going here- doing some work for my bro-in-law's business and watching pennies to a degree.
What he has:
Dual P2 400 with 8gb scsi drive
K62-450 with 3gb and 20 gb ide drives (os and software on 3 gig, data on 20 gig)
What he wants:
Mirrored 80 gigs (using Win2K Server's software raid) on the AMD machine and no other HDDs in the pc.
20 gb drive as the only drive in the duallie.
What I have done so far:
picked up a ata133 controller for the AMD machine and installed it.
I can clone the os drive onto one of the 80 gig drives but Ghost will NOT work with dynamic disks in the machine apparently (issue is in the Ghost FAQ).
I then created a 10 gig partition and cloned the OS successfully, but now cannot create a mirrored partition using that drive.
It seems that in the current config I can have the software mirror but ONLY if I keep the 3 gig os drive.
My questions:
1) Will an IDE raid card get rid of the problem Ghost has? ie: not able clone with a mirror set on part of my drives?
2) Can Win2K Server's software raid be made to mirror on a drive that contains the os?
2) Is there any other way of achieving the goals above?
Any answers? Even answers that tell me I am out of luck will get me somewhere ;)
What he has:
Dual P2 400 with 8gb scsi drive
K62-450 with 3gb and 20 gb ide drives (os and software on 3 gig, data on 20 gig)
What he wants:
Mirrored 80 gigs (using Win2K Server's software raid) on the AMD machine and no other HDDs in the pc.
20 gb drive as the only drive in the duallie.
What I have done so far:
picked up a ata133 controller for the AMD machine and installed it.
I can clone the os drive onto one of the 80 gig drives but Ghost will NOT work with dynamic disks in the machine apparently (issue is in the Ghost FAQ).
I then created a 10 gig partition and cloned the OS successfully, but now cannot create a mirrored partition using that drive.
It seems that in the current config I can have the software mirror but ONLY if I keep the 3 gig os drive.
My questions:
1) Will an IDE raid card get rid of the problem Ghost has? ie: not able clone with a mirror set on part of my drives?
2) Can Win2K Server's software raid be made to mirror on a drive that contains the os?
2) Is there any other way of achieving the goals above?
Any answers? Even answers that tell me I am out of luck will get me somewhere ;)