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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2007-04-11 14:46:31
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Hi again, On 11 Apr 2007, at 14:09, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On 11 Apr 2007, at 00:18, Kazz wrote: >> One more question since if anyone can answer it, you probably can. I >> planned to use windows software RAID 0 and RAID 5 on different >> partitions since I'd read that Linux was capable of using those >> too, but >> when I finally went to set it up, I discovered that vista "ultimate" >> wasn't quite so ultimate when it came to software RAID, and it had no >> options for RAID 5 or even RAID 1. > > Really? /me tries it.. Yes you are right! Even using the command > line I get (note disk 1 is contains a single simple volume): > > <quote> > DISKPART> select disk=1 > > Disk 1 is now the selected disk. > > DISKPART> add disk=2 > > The command you selected is not available with this version of > Windows. > </quote> > > And I get the same error message trying to create a RAID 5 set... > > However, I thought of a cool trick. Boot with the Vista > installation CD and then when you have started the installer (it > does not need to be installing yet, the CD just needs to have > booted into the full installation environment, i.e. you can for > example do it at the screen where it asks to enter the CD Key) > press SHIFT+F10. You then get a command prompt up running with > full administrative privileges. Then type "diskpart" and you are > now running diskpart command line utility. You can now create both > RAID 5 and Mirror sets! (-: [snip] > I am doing this right now to see whether it works... I will let > you know when I have finished whether it worked or not... Having finished installing Vista Ultimate in VMware Fusion I have to say my trick was not so clever... It does not work! )-: Booting into Vista Ultimate it showed the disks as being a "foreign diskset" and all I could do was import the diskset. Once I had done that both the mirror and raid5 arrays showed up as "Failed" and neither in the GUI nor in diskpart could I do anything to bring them back online... So whilst you can create them with the installer (and use them! - I also formatted them in the installer in diskpart to NTFS and even copied some files from the install dvd onto the arrays...) Vista Ultimate cannot use them. )-: How very annoying of it! I wonder which version of Vista is needed to use Fault Tolerant disks sets... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ |
