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Software Developer at CodeGear (formerly Borland)
working primarily on Delphi and C++ Builder.
I'm very interested in performance tuning and working on hard to fix bugs.
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Sep 14 |
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Raid 1 drives do not have the same data Additional notes: 1) If you just disable RAID in the BIOS and don't disconnect one of the drives then Windows will complain and ask you to reformat the drive. 2) If you just disconnect one of the drives and (with RAID still enabled), then the Intel Storage Matrix BIOS screen shows "degraded" in yellow and hangs around for about 10 seconds extra. This leads me to the conclusion that it must have been the combination of the 2 events which left the system in the state it was in without me noticing anything. I rarely reboot and stare at the POST display so it was easy for me to miss. |
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Sep 14 |
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Raid 1 drives do not have the same data I did a bit of digging, and I think I know what happened. A little over a month ago I was having problems with my boot drive (not part of the array), so I pulled it out and ran diagnostics on it in another machine. At the same time I did that, I also reloaded the default BIOS settings (which turns off the RAID controller). When I re-installed the drive I think that the SATA connectors on one of the drives in the array may have gotten dislodged. So the combination of these two events effectively disabled my RAID setup "silently". At least that's what I'm guessing happened. |
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Sep 13 |
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Raid 1 drives do not have the same data Thanks for the suggestion. When I setup the array, I just followed the instructions to create a new volume. I definitely didn't do anything to specifically enable RTT. I do recall, that even though this was not my boot partition, I still had to re-install the OS (XP at the time) to get things working. |
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Sep 13 |
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Raid 1 drives do not have the same data The filesets were different. Files I had copied onto the RAID setup a month ago were on one drive, but not the other. |
