On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:37:34 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry,
>Could be a number of things, but in general you'd never put FreeDOS on a >RAID 5 partition of 140Gb. You're right. I'm just want to "TEST", to see if FreeDOS can work on Xeon server grade machine. It's works despite of few glitches. >If you were building the server, or wanted a utility partition, it would >usually be on a mirror of the first two physical disks, and would not >need to be more than 4Gb. Under hardware RAID, the MBR would be >automatically written to both disks with FreeDOS FDISK /MBR. If you use >brand new disks, and have never used MS-DOS FDISK or other tools, I >don't think FreeDOS will create an MBR boot program until you tell it to. Thanks for your advise. The server will install 2003Server soon, just want to try FreeDOS. >I don't even put Windows on RAID 5 at 140GB, it goes on RAID 1 at about >14Gb, but during textmode setup I use a 2Gb FAT16 or FAT32 partition >which gets converted to NTFS after setup. It's wise to "Mirror" the system only. It's fun to know our client put everything on the RAID, even the system. >Once you have an o/s installed, you can use a RAID 5 through the SCSI >driver with very large partitions. Under Windows you'd set the RAID 5 as >a "dynamic" disk, this is a non-bootable type of disk that knows nothing >about traditional DOS partitions, but supports on-line expansion of the >Array. Thanks for sharing your experience. >If you did not use a SCSI driver in your setup, it will depend on what >the BIOS wants you to see, and most BIOSs will only address the first >8Gb. Strangely, Dell latest BIOS's seem to be able to address large SCSI >partitions without drivers, but I don't know how. Strange that FreeDOS can see the full size 140GB, but MS-DOS just 8GB. I'll test the latest FDISK from Jeremy today. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
