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<DIV>I personally dont think this is a good idea to raid a failing disk. I would backup as much data as possible and reinstall on a new disk.That would be a good time to raid.</DIV>
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<DIV>Guy Lessard<BR>Professeur CÉGEP de l'Outaouais<BR>Gatineau, Québec<BR>Canada<BR><BR>>>> Barry Cisna <brcisna@eazylivin.net> 2007-01-19 16:24:07 >>><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #000000">Hello All,<BR><BR> Is it possible?<BR> This is kind of off topic, but am guessing someone here has given this<BR>a shot , maybe.<BR>I stupidly built a server 2 years ago without enabling the onboard Adapetc<BR>raid,with intentions of trying the built in software raid on Windows 2003<BR>server. I never got around to setting up the software raid in Windows 2003<BR>logical disk manager. duhhh!!..Now I rebooted this server a few days ago<BR>and I am getting smart drive status errors at bios level. This box has two<BR>sata 320g Hd,s. The OS is installed on the one drive. The second drive is<BR>blank. Can i create a raid1 array and make it bootable? Will this hose the<BR>boot sector of the hard drive? ive read through the manual and then called<BR>the mobo company. the first time the gentleman told me this is not<BR>possible. I called the next day inquiring about more questions,and this<BR>gentleman told me it is possible?<BR>I've never tried this scenario.The server still boots fine with the smart<BR>drive errors but the Windows logical disk manager does not "see" the drive<BR>to be able to go through the software raid process:(.<BR>I would prefer to do the Adaptec raid (1).<BR>Anyone have any ideas on this?<BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Barry Cisna<BR>westcentral school<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>K12OSN mailing list<BR>K12OSN@redhat.com<BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A><BR>For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>