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jdv
Aug 15, 2010, 07:34 AM
What should I be doing to my drives before building arrays with them?

Hitachi do a Drive Fitness Test and Seagate something similar but I have not been able to get either to work on a BootCamp Windows partition.

I tried formatting in Disk Utility and pulling some data on and off. I'm now running a scan for bad blocks in Drive Genius (is this worth it? It's going to take about a week at this rate). Anything else I should do?


highdefw
Aug 16, 2010, 12:29 AM
check this thread out...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=991025

You cannot boot up windows through a raid in OSX.
nanofrog
Aug 16, 2010, 06:54 PM
What should I be doing to my drives before building arrays with them?

Hitachi do a Drive Fitness Test and Seagate something similar but I have not been able to get either to work on a BootCamp Windows partition.

I tried formatting in Disk Utility and pulling some data on and off. I'm now running a scan for bad blocks in Drive Genius (is this worth it? It's going to take about a week at this rate). Anything else I should do?
Ulitmate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) should do you, as it has Hitachi's Drive Fitness Tool and Seagate's SeaTools for DOS. :)

I presume you've not actually created the array yet, going by the title you gave your post, so this should be all you need (rather than borrow a PC). ;) If this isn't the case however, it won't work either (see thread highdefw linked).