[dba-Tech] Boot off of D: drive

Well I was never able to get one of the existing raid drives to be bootable,
though I only tried for an hour or so.  I ended up pulling a couple of
identical 250mb SATA1 drives out of another machine and making into a raid1
using the motherboard's raid stuff.  Not blazing as is the Arcos system but
it is "just the boot drive".  As long as the raid works correctly and can be
rebuilt.  That is my biggest fear with motherboard raid.  Usually when one
drive dies, the other takes over seamlessly (I have had that happen) but I
never could get another drive to install and be rebuilt into a new raid
array.

Anyway, there you have it.  New C: raid drive, new software install.  I went
with plain old Windows 2003 this time instead of SBS, which makes for a much
easier install.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Boot off of D: drive

Best of luck!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 6:00 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Boot off of D: drive

Yea, I'm just going to move one of the raids into C: position and do a clean
install to the c: drive.

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