RAID IDE Card and Norton GHOST ??

[enaveso 0]

Hi friends, could you help me?

 

I'm thinking in buying a RAID Ide card (maybe ADAPTEC or Promise, not sure...) and due to these cards don't have DOS drivers I would like to know if I could use Norton Ghost or Drive Image Pro to make an image of my RAID 0 or 1 HD (two IBM 75GXP) on my third drive (motherboard IDE connected), does Norton Ghost see the two drivers as only one??

[ByronT 0]

I believe you have to get the "Professional" editions to be able to use an imaging or ghost product with RAID hard drives.

 

But your best bet for the right information is to scoot over to the online FAQ and documentation for the respective products at www.symantec.com and www.powerquest.com.

 

HTH.

 

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J. Byron Todd

Computer Consultant

byron@toddcomp.com

Todd Computer Solutions

[enaveso 0]

I think that if I can boot in real DOS with my raid drive (due to the RAID controller BIOS card) then I should can to run Norton Ghost and make the image of the RAID drive to my third drive, right??

[ByronT 0]

Not necessarily. Yes, your RAID controller BIOS makes the drives look like one big drive in DOS, BUT imaging software may try to work directly with the controller, and if so, the imaging software may see both drives as independent drives - not as linked RAID drives. If so, you're dead in the water trying to image the RAID set to a single drive.

 

That's why it's still a good idea for you to go to the respective web sites and check out any RAID specific information. I'm about 50% sure that for RAID drives to be imaged, you need the standard or professional edition of Ghost (not the personal), but I don't know about Drive Image Pro.

 

Look it up. It'll save you waiting on me to answer next time.

[ByronT 0]

Oops... double post... edited.

 

[This message has been edited by ByronT (edited 23 August 2000).]