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Ok I have now removed my Rocket raid card, after I moved all the data onto an external drive.
I reconnected all my drives to the SATA ports on the motherboard and went back to windows. I formatted up all the drives and moved the data back on.
So good so far.
Firstly I needed to get the command line setup done.
My setup is one hard drive that is partitioned into two (C & D) C is for the OS and D is for installed programs.
I then have 4 1 Tb spinpoints E, F, G, H (these are labeled as HTPC, Music, Films, Games).
I also have a 1Tb external drive that is I (labeled Parity) this is going to be for the Parity data for the Raid
I have installed Flexraid to the applications in D drive.
The next drive that I have is assigned I (with the label Parity).
I watched the tutorials on installing Flexraid client and server. I ran them both and connected to the local host in the client.
After much trial and error I finally figured out how to get the Parity created under the command line client. Surprised myself there as I didn't realise I would have to be setting this up with Text config files etc.
Anyway it is working away right now creating the Parity data on drive I
After that I will run a few tests and make sure everything is ok.
FINALLY I will test my system going to sleep and coming back out. Shouldn't have the problem that I had with the RAID card as now the drives are effectively just protected SATA drives.
Until FlexRAID live is available this is more of a RAID snapshot that you can run, update etc. I know you can probably do a lot more but that is probably a little beyond me right now lol.
Thanks again for all the pointers
Regards
Kev
I reconnected all my drives to the SATA ports on the motherboard and went back to windows. I formatted up all the drives and moved the data back on.
So good so far.
Firstly I needed to get the command line setup done.
My setup is one hard drive that is partitioned into two (C & D) C is for the OS and D is for installed programs.
I then have 4 1 Tb spinpoints E, F, G, H (these are labeled as HTPC, Music, Films, Games).
I also have a 1Tb external drive that is I (labeled Parity) this is going to be for the Parity data for the Raid
I have installed Flexraid to the applications in D drive.
The next drive that I have is assigned I (with the label Parity).
I watched the tutorials on installing Flexraid client and server. I ran them both and connected to the local host in the client.
After much trial and error I finally figured out how to get the Parity created under the command line client. Surprised myself there as I didn't realise I would have to be setting this up with Text config files etc.
Anyway it is working away right now creating the Parity data on drive I
After that I will run a few tests and make sure everything is ok.
FINALLY I will test my system going to sleep and coming back out. Shouldn't have the problem that I had with the RAID card as now the drives are effectively just protected SATA drives.
Until FlexRAID live is available this is more of a RAID snapshot that you can run, update etc. I know you can probably do a lot more but that is probably a little beyond me right now lol.
Thanks again for all the pointers
Regards
Kev