On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:36:58PM +0000, Mitch Crawford wrote: > How do I get my machine to see a newly added Single SATA HD? not RAID > > The BIOS setting is set to IDE and is detected by the bios OK > > ASUS M2V-MX SE motherboard running 4.0r2 (2.6.18) and a Samsung 500Gb Sata > HD > > I do have another identical drive and wondered whether RAID was better than > having the same data on another machine (would be WinXP )
What do you mean get the machine to see? What does dmesg show? RAID solves the problem of a dying disk and has instantaneous/continuous backup. Drive failure can kill the MB or a dead MB can kill data on the drive. Backing up to a drive on a different computer is more likely to protect the data that gets to it (both boxes would have to be destroyed to be affected). Note that I would encrypt the data before trusting it to a Win box. Just pipe it through OpenSSL's enc funtion on its way to the box. Worry about getting your second 500 GB (not Gb) drive set up first. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
