[O-CuK]Marci
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Confused me there... y'mean have Windows XP Source files on the SATA HDD and install from HDD to HDD?
Don't think so...
Personally, spent all last week ripping out my 4x 73Gb 15K Cheetah SCSI U320 drives and going back to regular IDE / SATA. The noise alone was a pita... and the transfer rates weren't enough to justify `em, raided or otherwise. Nothing went any faster as the drive transfer rate has never been the bottleneck in any system. The Northbridge and Southbridge bottleneck you long before the drives do. Soon as that's maxed, you won't get any more, and that can be maxed with raid'd IDE or SATA drives. Hardly anything actually demands that much of the drive tho... only a lot of folks wanting the same file at once.
If the SCSI Controller is only a SCSI Controller, then you won't have the option to raid em other than using windows software raid (Dynamic Disk), which means you can't install windows onto em unless you stick em in a working PC to raid/partition/format thru MS Computer Damagement console first. However, Windows-software raid is also rather poo. If it isn't raid done in hardware by the controller, it isn't worth doing. And by the sounds of it, your SCSI Controller card isn't a RAID card.
In fact, just read back thru the thread and found your SCSI Card model, and no, it isn't a RAID Card, just a SCSI Card. The ALP-R is the raid version, the ALP is the non-Raid. On the Raid version, you press control-A after the main mobo bios (as it then boots thru the adaptec card's bios) and set up your raid array within the Adaptec Cards' bios before installing windows.
Don't think so...
Personally, spent all last week ripping out my 4x 73Gb 15K Cheetah SCSI U320 drives and going back to regular IDE / SATA. The noise alone was a pita... and the transfer rates weren't enough to justify `em, raided or otherwise. Nothing went any faster as the drive transfer rate has never been the bottleneck in any system. The Northbridge and Southbridge bottleneck you long before the drives do. Soon as that's maxed, you won't get any more, and that can be maxed with raid'd IDE or SATA drives. Hardly anything actually demands that much of the drive tho... only a lot of folks wanting the same file at once.
If the SCSI Controller is only a SCSI Controller, then you won't have the option to raid em other than using windows software raid (Dynamic Disk), which means you can't install windows onto em unless you stick em in a working PC to raid/partition/format thru MS Computer Damagement console first. However, Windows-software raid is also rather poo. If it isn't raid done in hardware by the controller, it isn't worth doing. And by the sounds of it, your SCSI Controller card isn't a RAID card.
In fact, just read back thru the thread and found your SCSI Card model, and no, it isn't a RAID Card, just a SCSI Card. The ALP-R is the raid version, the ALP is the non-Raid. On the Raid version, you press control-A after the main mobo bios (as it then boots thru the adaptec card's bios) and set up your raid array within the Adaptec Cards' bios before installing windows.
