Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:59:23 +0000 (+0000), Pierre Cazenave wrote:
> [snip]
>> If I simply plug in my new hard drive, will it show up as a new
>> disk (D:\)? Or will it try to become part of the RAID 1 array?
>
> It's possible that what you have is FakeRAID. My personal experience of
> this is to "avoid at all costs" - I've almost lost all my data, twice
> (once involving low level bit-twiddling of the RAID data on the disks
> having fixed a bug in a repair program....).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakeraid#Firmware.2Fdriver_based_raid_.28.22Fake_RAID.22.29
>
> OTOH if it is a LSI logic SAS controller, that's definitely a proper
> server controller and so is probably _real_ hardware RAID.
>
I've not touched the set up yet (I don't have my new disk). I've also
ordered a 500GB external drive, and I'll use this to back anything that
I can't afford to lose (which is quite a lot!) before adding the new disk.
Once everything's safely backed up, I think I'll just plug in the new
disk and see what happens. Like you say, the motherboard seems to have
this LSI logic SAS controller, so hopefully it'll just accept the new
disk with no problems [touches wood].
> It will probably show up as a new disk which you will need to format
> and then it will show up as D:
>
> (googling.....) Finally, a useful guide - it's a bit OTT in terms of
> complexity, but it explains how paritions and formatting works:
> http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm
>
> Adrian
Does anyone know of a program that will give you information on the
hardware in your PC? I've had a go with cup-z, but the output it gives
for the motherboard doesn't throw up any results on Google. I had to
resort to opening the case and finding the serial number that way.
msinfo32 wasn't amazingly useful (quelle surprise!), but I can't think
of any others.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Pierre
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University of Southampton,
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Southampton
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