The administration wants the OS on a FAT partition?
If so, can these partitions be made from the NT Disk Administrator after
the initial installation where the drives have been partioned into 1 large
drive?
Thanks!
J.m.
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At 02:19 PM 7/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Setup your drives as a RAID 5 array BEFORE installing NT. There should be a
>utility that comes with your array to let you do this.
>Then, when installing NT, it will appear as one large logical drive. NT only
>supports FAT and NTFS so choose one or the other during the installation....
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: System Administrator <sysadmin@bitterroot.net>
>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
>Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 12:07 PM
>Subject: Re: RAID 5 Partitions
>
>
>>>From what we can ascertain, a OS bootable/redundant RAID 5
>>configuration using our 3 9GB drives must be established during
>>the installation of NT 4.0.
>>
>>However we see no facility from within
>>the NT installation process to partition our 3 drives as anything
>>but FAT or NTFS on a Primary partition.
>>
>>J.M.
>>
>>---------------- cut ----------------
>>
>>
>>At 01:24 PM 7/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Paul Sheahan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I haven't seen or heard of an NT bootable RAID5 system. But if it can be
>>>> done as Tangent says, you can use NTFS or FAT. Use FAT only if you are
>dual
>>>> booting another OS that can't support NTFS. Otherwise, always use NTFS
>as it
>>>> provides better performance than FAT on any drives over 400 meg, among
>all
>>>> of the other security features.
>>>
>>>All hardware RAID systems make the RAID drives appear to the OS
>>>however the RAID is configured. Therefore, you can configure a RAID5
>>>set with 3 drives (a total of 18gb) to apear as a single 18gb
>>>hard drive to NT. NT just uses it likes its an 18gb drive.
>>>
>>>Software RAID5 is much different and probably what you are thinking
>>>about.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
>>>_________________________________________________________________
>>> IEA Software, Inc. | RadiusNT, Emerald, and NT FAQs
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>>>
>>>
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