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randykb_1900

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October 4th, 2007 02:00

Need help with RAID 1

I have set up the BIOS in my Inspiron 531 to accept my two similar drives in the RAID 1 array. It all looks like it's working, but that brings up my question. Since I can no longer see both drives in Windows Explorer (VISTA OS), I am not sure it is working correctly. I guess my question is how can I look at what is written on both drives in order to 'compare' them to see if the 'mirror' is actually working?
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    mombodog

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    Posted October 4th, 2007 02:00

    Windows will only see one drive in a raid 1 array, it is obscured from being seen by the raid driver. If you think about it, it the wise thing to do, keep the mirror drive hidden, so nothing gets deleted, moved or mangled by accident on the mirror drive.
     
    You can disconnect one drive, boot up,you will get a degraded array message" and view that drive, then shut down, do the same for the other drive, plug the first one back in, boot up and see that drive. I don't recommend it.
     
    I don't know of any other way to see both drives in windows.
     
    If the mirror has no errors, then the drives contents are Identical. This is the whole purpose of Raid 1
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    allanbiats

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    Posted November 1st, 2007 16:00

    I am using Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 and I have a Raid 1 array.
     
    I can see the status of the drives using a software application called 'Intel Application Accelerator' and it allows me to manage the array.
     
    I'm reasonably sure it was preinstalled on my Dimension 8400 when I got it.
     
    Not sure if it would be in Windows Vista, but maybe there is a similar product.
     
    Hope this helps.
     
    Al
     
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    TomXPS

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    Posted November 1st, 2007 21:00

    They renamed it to Itel Storage Manager.   From this application you can check the status of the RAID or setup one if you do not have RAID setup yet.   On the newest version of the Storage  Manger installed on my XPS 410, it even pops up when I first start telling me everything is OK.     I downloaded that version from Intel recently.  
     
     

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