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Situation about SATA
Hello, I'm pc enthusiast, and i often help my friends in building up their
pcs. Actually i'm able of install windows by using the F6 function, then giving the new drivers downloaded from internet, motherboard manufaturer. I fight with Sil SATA, Intel ich5r Sata (875P) and a lot of them without any problems, despide of the old drivers gived by the mobo manufaturer.. I usually meet motherboards with nforce2, kt600, nforce3, Intel 865 875, and so on, with embedded Sata Controllers . The real problem is when i want do a backup of the installation: Ghost and Partition magic often requires 10 times the time to start, cannot identify SATA HD, and so on. I tryed all the parameters from command line from the symantec helpline, also tried set the bios in pata mode, but currently i find it a lot uneasy. Almost impossible do it with a RAID SATA. How could i perform the task? I appreciate the new technologies when they delivers boost of performance or easy usability, but i'm finding a lot of troubles in SATA technology |
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Situation about SATA
I have two SATA harddrives on an ASUS motherboard. GHOST 2003 would not
recognize all partitions when run from within windows. However, GHOST 2003 and 2002 both worked fine when run from a bootable floppy. When I asked Symantec support, they informed me that neither SATA nor RAID were "officially" supported. They went on to say that GHOST may work on "hardware" RAID, but that they would offer no support. Supposedly there is a new GHOST, version 9, which is better. I have found that Acronis TrueImage, version 7 (build 629) or 8 (all), will work on my disks both from within windows (to backup) and from bootable CD (to restore). I can also backup from the CD, but that is less convenient. You might want to give them a try: www.acronis.com "PowerUser90_Italy" wrote in message ... Hello, I'm pc enthusiast, and i often help my friends in building up their pcs. Actually i'm able of install windows by using the F6 function, then giving the new drivers downloaded from internet, motherboard manufaturer. I fight with Sil SATA, Intel ich5r Sata (875P) and a lot of them without any problems, despide of the old drivers gived by the mobo manufaturer.. I usually meet motherboards with nforce2, kt600, nforce3, Intel 865 875, and so on, with embedded Sata Controllers . The real problem is when i want do a backup of the installation: Ghost and Partition magic often requires 10 times the time to start, cannot identify SATA HD, and so on. I tryed all the parameters from command line from the symantec helpline, also tried set the bios in pata mode, but currently i find it a lot uneasy. Almost impossible do it with a RAID SATA. How could i perform the task? I appreciate the new technologies when they delivers boost of performance or easy usability, but i'm finding a lot of troubles in SATA technology |
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Situation about SATA
"Bob Harris" wrote in message ... I have two SATA harddrives on an ASUS motherboard. GHOST 2003 would not recognize all partitions when run from within windows. However, GHOST 2003 and 2002 both worked fine when run from a bootable floppy. When I asked Symantec support, they informed me that neither SATA nor RAID were "officially" supported. They went on to say that GHOST may work on "hardware" RAID, but that they would offer no support. Supposedly there is a new GHOST, version 9, which is better. I've heard of Symantec's position on RAID for several years now, and for the life of me I can't figure out how Ghost would know the difference between two disks in a hardware RAID configuration and a single disk. The bios shows it as a single disk and both the OS and Ghost should be none to the wise. Find any reference to a RAID array in Windows, for example. I used Ghost and NU on both this system with a SATA RAID (ICH5R) and an older 440BX chipset with an off-chip Highpoint RAID using two PATA drives, and neither system had the slightest problem. I've also run them in numerous single-PATA systems and one single-SATA workstation. FWIW, I've run Ghost for years, but only from a boot floppy. |
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