[CTS] Re: Basic and dynamic drives
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:10:57 -0600
SATA drives act just like SCSI RAID, so dynamic is generally what you get.
The other option would be basic.
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> After finding out that you can't just stick a SATA-2 drive into a system
> and expect it to work, now I wish to format the drive and the only
> option it's giving me is dynamic. First of all, is this normal?
> Secondly, can you partition a dynamic drive? I am still planning on
> setting the two drivs up in a RAID Array, but it's taking me a little
> longer to backup one partition that I expected. :-( So I thought I
> would at least get the drive installed in the system.
>
> TIA
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