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23 Aug

Just bought
2x Maxtor 160,0 GB – SATA150
1x Promise FastTrak SATA150 TX4, SATA controller

I had a bunch of problems with my BIOS loading my two IDE harddrives first, resulting my Windows Installation becomming F:

Not something I wanted to live with, so after some hard thinking… I solved it by disabling the two IDE drives in my BIOS, during the Windows installation. Thereby getting windows installed on C:, on my SATA drives

I am currently running RAID 0 which seems to run okay, nice and fast.

I do have one problem, my disks makes noises when it “thinks” – I can only remember this from back when I had my 300 MB hardrive and 486 machine.

I don’t really mind it, but it’s not somehing which I expected from two high-tech drives.

My computer now seems to be performing nicely.
Fast data-transfers and a 2 MBit connection, makes you enjoy using the computer just a little more :)

Of couse all this results in me being able to finally use my new DVD drive, which I must say shows Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring quite nicely :)

 
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  1. monkeY

    August 24, 2003 at 01:11

    Lot of words being typed, but I don\t hear anything! ;)

     
  2. Tom Sommer

    August 24, 2003 at 01:13

    Say what?

     
  3. steve

    October 3, 2003 at 20:13

    have a good time when one of your drives goes bad, mr. RAID 0! heh

     
  4. Kasper Hartwich

    October 12, 2003 at 20:30

    Couldnt you just change the driveletters in windows? It is a bit hidden feature, but ask google.
    Well, good luck with your raid, but as steve says don’t cry when one of the disks crash.
    Buy a disk more and run mirror on your disks.

     
  5. Tom Sommer

    October 12, 2003 at 20:42

    Nope, I know about this – You cannot change driveletter on an active-mounted drive…