RE: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <LAURIE@ADVANCENET.NET>]

>Actually, both must be set up on the same IDE channel as masters.

How does one do that?  I thought that you could only have one master device
per channel; and it was the one that was connected to the end of the ribbon
cable and had its jumper set for master.

At any rate, I am off to check out the web site you mentioned and do some
further research.  Thanks for the reference.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Jim Snyder
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:10 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Best solution for HD and images


on 11/12/01 12:22 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON at LAURIE@ADVANCENET.NET wrote:

> To Preben:
>
> Thanks for your response and patience.  The Abit board does permit JBOD;
but
> it does not provide RAID 5 as you have noted.  When I asked about what
> appeared to be a contradiction between what you suggested and what the
ABIT
> manual said I did not realize that there was a RAID 5 and that this was
what
> you were referring to.  I apologize for my ignorance; but I am not sorry I
> asked.  Out of my asking, I learned about RAID 5, which I would not have
> known about if I did not raise my question about the apparent
contradiction.
>
> To all who have posted on the subject of RAID:
>
> Thank you; it has been an education.  I have a few additional questions
that
> I need to be educated on and would appreciate any information that you
could
> provide me.
>
> (1) If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks, must each hard
> drive be the master on a separate IDE channel or can they be set up as
> master-slave on the same IDE channel?

Actually, both must be set up on the same IDE channel as masters. There is a
procedure to follow before doing so, but this is the end result.
>
> (2) If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks under WIN 98,
can
> one establish partitions for the array or must it be a single partition?
In
> formatting the drives to be used in a RAID array, how does one format each
> of the disks with Fdisk (each disk being a brand new disk) with respect to
> partitions?

Each is first done separately, but then there are steps to follow before
arriving at the end result. Check the website of www.storagereview.com for
details. They have a great article on setting up RAID arrays.
>
> (3)If one sets up a RAID 0 (striping)with two 60GB disks under WIN 98, can
> one use utilities such as ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter on the RAID
array,
> on individual hard drive disks in the array, or - if logical partitions
are
> usable with the array or disks in the array - on the partitions?

Yes. Both disc are effectively one disk when properly set up. Remember, data
is being striped to both as if they are one disc.

Jim Snyder