Mixing RAID and non-RAID drives???
I have setup my PC with:
2x Seagate 320GB SATA HDDs
They are setup as 100GB RAID 0 with 2 partitions used for a WinXP x86/Win7 x64 dual-boot,
with the balance setup as 250GB RAID1 in 1 partition for data storage.
AND,
2x Seagate 1TB SATA HDDs setup as RAID1 in 2 partitions for data storage.
The other 2 of the 6 total SATA ports available are used by the optical drives.
The only other possible SATA connection is a single eSATA to which I have connected a Seagate BlackArmour WS 110 1TB External HDD.
Actually I have 2 of them that I can interchange as I need to.
Now, my problem:
When I drag and drop or copy large files [up to several GB] onto the eSATA non-RAID HDD the partition tables become broken.
All data on the eSATA HDD is lost except through a recovery process.
Even storing Ghost Images [the dual-boot OS partitions] made in a DOS environment breaks the partition table.
I ran into similar problems while trying to setup the original RAID configuration and lost several hundred GB of stored data.
There, the RAID Volume partition tables were being broken while shuffling data around trying to save it, albeit in a Rube Goldberg fasion.
I'm beginning to think that running RAID and non-RAID SATA drives on a single PC is not a good idea, possibly due to BIOS settings??
I find that I cannot run a DOS drive scrubber software to cleanup the eSATA drive.
Again, possibly due to BIOS settings??
Can anyone give me thoughts or advice about this?
Thanks for any help with this.
2x Seagate 320GB SATA HDDs
They are setup as 100GB RAID 0 with 2 partitions used for a WinXP x86/Win7 x64 dual-boot,
with the balance setup as 250GB RAID1 in 1 partition for data storage.
AND,
2x Seagate 1TB SATA HDDs setup as RAID1 in 2 partitions for data storage.
The other 2 of the 6 total SATA ports available are used by the optical drives.
The only other possible SATA connection is a single eSATA to which I have connected a Seagate BlackArmour WS 110 1TB External HDD.
Actually I have 2 of them that I can interchange as I need to.
Now, my problem:
When I drag and drop or copy large files [up to several GB] onto the eSATA non-RAID HDD the partition tables become broken.
All data on the eSATA HDD is lost except through a recovery process.
Even storing Ghost Images [the dual-boot OS partitions] made in a DOS environment breaks the partition table.
I ran into similar problems while trying to setup the original RAID configuration and lost several hundred GB of stored data.
There, the RAID Volume partition tables were being broken while shuffling data around trying to save it, albeit in a Rube Goldberg fasion.
I'm beginning to think that running RAID and non-RAID SATA drives on a single PC is not a good idea, possibly due to BIOS settings??
I find that I cannot run a DOS drive scrubber software to cleanup the eSATA drive.
Again, possibly due to BIOS settings??
Can anyone give me thoughts or advice about this?
Thanks for any help with this.
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