He sees all 8, he is talking about software raid. I would put a mirror set on one controller for the OS, and the rest on the other controller raid 5 for data. Bob Higgins, MCSE Information Systems Server Administrator Chinook Health Region 960 19th Street South Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 1W5 www.chr.ab.ca Phone: (403) 382-6338 Fax: (403) 382 6046 E-mail: bhiggins@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RMC - Brian Hill Sent: January 20, 2004 10:05 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Software RAID question How do the drives show up in BIOS or in Disk Manager? Do you see 8 drives, or 2 logical drives? Are there any options to configure with the hardware that determine how they show up? Is the hardware capable of any type of RAID? Brian -----Original Message----- From: Stansel, Paul [mailto:Stansel_Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:31 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] OT: Software RAID question This one is pretty OT I admit :). I've got a Win2K server at home that I am looking to do software RAID5 with. I have 2 PCI IDE controller cards which lets me have a total of 8 IDE drives, 4 on each. Would it be better to do 2 RAID5 volumes, one for each controller, or can I span the RAID across multiple controllers and not kill performance (any more than it already is simply because it's software RAID). Just hoping someone knows! Thanks, Paul LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately. ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online 99Point9.com EOL THINssentials(tm) Bring You TRUE Universal Printing Solutions and Time Zone Support. EOL delivers any print job, any time zone, to any client, over Any protocol (ICA or RDP)! http://www.99point9.com/public/products/index.asp ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online 99Point9.com EOL THINssentials(tm) Bring You TRUE Universal Printing Solutions and Time Zone Support. EOL delivers any print job, any time zone, to any client, over Any protocol (ICA or RDP)! http://www.99point9.com/public/products/index.asp ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online 99Point9.com EOL THINssentials? Bring You TRUE Universal Printing Solutions and Time Zone Support. EOL delivers any print job, any time zone, to any client, over Any protocol (ICA or RDP)! http://www.99point9.com/public/products/index.asp ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm