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pettefar · 05-08-2006, 08:23 AM

I was merely speculating about the single-drive machines. I have just read on this forum that using a slave drive with a 1-series machine allows you to create a second drive so I guess this is really old news. I did notice, during my brief test time with four drives on my 2200, that the icons are just for 2-drives and I wasn't shown options for making a four-drive mirror ie 2 x 2 drives (mirrored concats) or RAID 50. Would I have to set this BIOS flag to get these options? How do I set this BIOS flag? If you can set the BIOS flag, why can't you unset it?

I was just using the drives I had to hand, 2 x 80GB that came with the SS and 2 x 120GB spare drives. When I made a "big disk" it re-partitioned and formatted the 120GB disks as 80GB disks. I guess this is logical. I'm trying to find a way of partitioning/formatting these drives back to 120GB and making sure they have the OS on so I can use them as a 120GB mirror. Any tips on this?

How are your Seagate 300GBs? I'm going to be buying some drives for this machine next week. Do you recommend them and if so, what model are they?

Cheers!

Nick
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1 Snap2200 2x80GB+2x120GB v4.083UK

05-08-2006, 08:23 AM	#3
pettefar Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: SW England Posts: 26	Re: Snap 2200 With 4 Drives I was merely speculating about the single-drive machines. I have just read on this forum that using a slave drive with a 1-series machine allows you to create a second drive so I guess this is really old news. I did notice, during my brief test time with four drives on my 2200, that the icons are just for 2-drives and I wasn't shown options for making a four-drive mirror ie 2 x 2 drives (mirrored concats) or RAID 50. Would I have to set this BIOS flag to get these options? How do I set this BIOS flag? If you can set the BIOS flag, why can't you unset it? I was just using the drives I had to hand, 2 x 80GB that came with the SS and 2 x 120GB spare drives. When I made a "big disk" it re-partitioned and formatted the 120GB disks as 80GB disks. I guess this is logical. I'm trying to find a way of partitioning/formatting these drives back to 120GB and making sure they have the OS on so I can use them as a 120GB mirror. Any tips on this? How are your Seagate 300GBs? I'm going to be buying some drives for this machine next week. Do you recommend them and if so, what model are they? Cheers! Nick ----------------------------------------------- 1 Snap2200 2x80GB+2x120GB v4.083UK