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thanks, i think the solution to this problem is there is no solution. i have no drivers and there don't seem to be any readily available so this will be a standard set up with 2 drives and i can mirror the critical data to the other but no raid. i can live with that as this machine is about 7 years old or so. thanks for everyone's help.

the model number is aic-7896 as far as i can tell. it's stamped on the chip and it shows as the system boots. i will look at this pdf and let you know the outcome. i appreciate your help and i hope this works. thanks.

you know, i really don't completely understand the differences, but it seems like raid 1 is the one that is needed. where basically the second drive is a copy in case the other drive goes down. the part i am unsure of is how to set this up so than when i install windows, only one drive shows up. there is some info in the win 2003 server help that talks about creating mirrors but the options are not there when i right-click on the disks in disk management. i would rather do this at a hardware level, which appears to be my only option. thanks...

this adaptec on an intel board. there is a raid bios but it doesn't really talk about setting up different types of raid arrays. so basically, i want to set up the machine to have both drives seen as one drive so that i have redundancy across the two drives. i am far from a hardware expert, much less raid expert so i am looking for basic advice on set up. if anyone can help, i would indeed appreciate it.

(sorry for the crosspost, but it's sort of an emergency) hello, i am fairly novice when it comes to hardware and especially RAID arrays, but i need to set up what i think is a basic scenario. i have an older machine with an intel board. i have 2 drives which i would like to act like one drive. i think the set would be a RAID 1, but i am open to suggestions. this machine was configured before and now when i try to install a new version of windows, at the set up step it shows to drives rather than one. i have deleted both partitions and tried again, but it wants to create 2 different drive letters rather than just C. is there some sort of hardware setting i could use to accomplish this? could anyone help me with this? is there an array config tool that can set this up? thanks...

hello, i am fairly novice when it comes to hardware and especially RAID arrays, but i need to set up what i think is a basic scenario. i have an older machine with an intel board. i have 2 drives which i would like to act like one drive. i think the set would be a RAID 1, but i am open to suggestions. this machine was configured before and now when i try to install a new version of windows, at the set up step it shows to drives rather than one. i have deleted both partitions and tried again, but it wants to create 2 different drive letters rather than just C. could anyone help me with this? is there an array config tool that can set this up? thanks...