Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Tue Mar 4 11:58:01 CST 2003
Easy, actually. My personal computer at work.... Two 20 gig IDE drives and 2 18 gig SCSI drives. Configured as such: C: (System Root) 6 gigs mirrored (both SCSI drives). D: (My Data Drive) 22 gigs (11 gigs on both SCSI drives and 11 gigs on one of my IDE drives (the permanent one...the other IDE is removable) P: (Program Files) 6 gigs on permanent IDE drive Z: (Backup Data) Entire 20 gig removable IDE drive. My 'server' at home: One 16 gig IDE, two 30Gig IDE and one 60 gig IDE. C: (system root) 6 gigs mirrored on one of the 30 gigs and the 16 gig. D: (Storage)98 gigs spanned on the other 30 gig, the 60 gig, and the remainder of the first 30 gig drive. E: (Data) 20 gigs striped between the first 30 gig and the 16 gig. All of the above is done using Windows 2000 Disk Management. I would like to have a RAID5 at home, but I needed the space...I'm practically full on my storage drive. The problem with running a RAID 5 on IDE, is that typically you only have 2 IDE controllers. So running three disks for the same drive can work, but it's not practical, since you are sacrificing speed. However, you can buy a PCI IDE controller, so you can then have three IDE drives that are NOT on the same controllers. Drew -----Original Message----- From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:16 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access XP and 97 hang on reattaching linked tables under WinXP ...lol ...I'm still wondering how you "Get three hard drives. (SCSI...but that may be a bit expensive....), Mirror the OS, and RAID a data drive (you can do all of that in Disk Management...with Windows 2000, no RAID controller necessary.)" ...this must be a Drew style RAID configuration that would leave the people at MS gasping in amazement! :)))) William Hindman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access XP and 97 hang on reattaching linked tables under WinXP > Hmmmm, not a bad idea for a new 'cheap' brand name server .... "Drew style" > .... > > Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:41 AM > To: Seth Galitzer > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access XP and 97 hang on reattaching linked > tables under WinXP > > > Hi Seth > > I can't believe you're still struggling with this. We have never > encountered a scenario that comes even close to what you describe. > > Which protocol(s) are you running? > Have you tried setting up an isolated test environment? > (You can use a "Drew style" server for this!) > > Don't you have a nearby Novell/database guru to work with on this? > > /gustav > > > > Relinking to a BE on Novell is panifully slow even on Win98 machines. > > I've tried optimizing it, but it still takes up to four seconds for each > > table on Win98, and even longer on 2K or XP machines. Unfortunately, > > the problem doesn't appear to be the relinker itself. Using the > > built-in Linked Table Manager is still painfully slow. As a result I am > > "this close" to moving everything to a real database server and using > > ODBC. Of course, ODBC is likely to introduce its own performance hit. > > > I would love to have a discussion on this topic. > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com