From: "Geo." 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:4049f36e$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> seen extreme strangeness with subtle drive firmware differences.  Do you
make
> an effort to buy only vendor-approved drives?  SCSI only, I assume?

scsi only yes, but since this particular setup is from 1998 I have little
choice on drives, 9gb scsi drives are getting hard to find, the replacement
I used is an 18g (which seems to be working quite well I might add).

> From time to time, I hear some vague tales of reliability horrors with
RAID 0
> on kids' motherboard ATA setups - from their fathers.  I run away.  Life
is
> short.

I've had real good luck with a pair of IDE drives and NT's software
mirroring. It's not hotswap but it's easy to do and when a drive dies a
simple boot floppy (which I make and leave in the case) and you are back up
and running.

Geo.

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