IDE drives on a RAID system

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Mike Adams

is it possible to have Windows 2000 Server boot from an
IDE Drive and have it access the RAID array? Also is it
possible for the IDE drives to boot first rather than the
array

Thanks
 
This should be a BIOS setting.
Something like "First boot device SCSI" or "First boot
device IDE", although SCSI doesn't necessarily have to
mean the classical SCSI interface. Many ATA secondary
controllers are treated as SCSI for pseudo-RAID 0 or 1.

I've heard that the most stable thing in a low-cost
server system is to boot from an IDE single/master drive
all by itself on one IDE channel.
The high-speed RAID array should be on another controller
and should be where the network shares are served out.

If you have an expensive RAID 5 controller, it would seem
to be faster and more stable to run everything off that.
 
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