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From: System Administrator <sysadmin@bitterroot.net>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: RAID 5 Partitions
>Can you format the stipe so that there can be 2 FAT partitions and the rest
>NTFS. The 1st FAT being used for the OS and the 2nd for an older DOS based
>database.
>
>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
>>>> Internet Solutions for Today | http://www.iea-software.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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