9 A.M. Talk Net

Hi All,
A FYI...
So... I had a RAID 0 (striping) configuration on my desktop computer (this makes for fast access, but no error recovery). This had 2 225GB drives for a 500GB total. The Raid controller is an intel RAID controller of some type. All my important info was on a Drobo. I also had some networked disks.

One of the 225gb drives died and so it became time to install a new operating system (and re-raid the system). Nothing important got trashed but for the operating system and installed applications.

I replaced both disks with 500GB disks, was able to create two RAID volumes on those disks. One Volume was a RAID1 configuration (mirrored - to enable data redundancy) and the other Volume was setup as a RAID 0 volume (I use this volume for the primary swap area).

The hope is, 1) I will be less susceptible to a single failure of one of those disks, and 2) will still have a reasonable fast swap area.

I also played with an Ubuntu installation... Decided to use SUN VM on top of Windows 7 for Ubuntu instead of running Windows 7 in a Ubuntu vm.
But now have a Ubuntu CD and Flash stick to let me play with this.

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The windows 7 install has been straight forward so far except for....

The network drives are on a Cisco NSLU2. I could not mount the drives.
There is a windows 7 configuration modification that works... that change is documented by
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-account-administration/8241-map-network-dr...

My Plan today is to talk to Adobe and Nikon to get their products re-installed.

Dan