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by seaofcrisis
Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:29 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

Success! I'm up and running again at last! Unfortunately, I violated the cardinal rule of troubleshooting by changing two things at once, so I can't say for sure which change fixed my problems. First, I put one new drive and one old drive on each IDE channel. The idea was that this would slow both d...
by seaofcrisis
Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:35 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

"let me guess: you are using two two years old drives and two new ones? "

yes, but they are on different channels. I thought that would minimize timming errors.
by seaofcrisis
Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:24 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

Do you think it's worth my time to try a low-level format and then start over? thanks.
by seaofcrisis
Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:18 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

oops double post.
by seaofcrisis
Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:17 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

continued thanks for all the help. Last night I bought a larger, 500W power supply and on a whim I also got a PCI HD controller. It's a highpoint 133. I don't know if I like this company anymore, but I saw it on the shelf and remembered the advice here and went ahead and picked it up. It was the onl...
by seaofcrisis
Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:45 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

ok, I went home for lunch and examined the mb. I do not see any damaged components, and like I said, it ran fine for more than two years. So maybe that's not the problem. I have a 300W power supply. If it will help, I certainly don't mind buying a more powerful one. I don't think cooling is the prob...
by seaofcrisis
Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:46 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

thanks for the tips, I'll check that when I get home. I hope I can make it work!
by seaofcrisis
Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:14 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366
Replies: 14
Views: 22119

Problems with RAID 5 on HPT366

I have a BP6 with 2 celeron 400s and I run Windows 2000 advanced server on it. For the past two and a half years it has been a file server. It had a hard drive on IDE0 for the operating system, and two 120G drives on the HPT366 using windows' software raid 1 (that's mirroring because I don't want to...