William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 4 12:17:00 CST 2003
...so you've implemented a software RAID5 in Win2K using only three drives? ...to the best of my knowledge the Win2K OS can't reside on any of the hard drives configured as RAID5 by its software ...lord knows it would save some nice change in controller costs :) William Hindman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access XP and 97 hang on reattaching linked tables under WinXP > 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 > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >