Re: Discovering A SATA HD
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.
Reply to: