Just recently installed a raid System Using the RAID
Striping option. And yes, from everything I have read
you need two identical drives. AS they are partitioned
and Formated as one large Disk (Array). I used two IBM
40 Gig 7200 RPM drives in this systems, and the only
problem I had, was that Window 98se, after
partitioning the drives only seen 12.9 gigs!!! When in
fact it should have been 80 gig. But after the format,
everything was as it should be. And WOW what a speed
increase. The customer that recieved this system,
swears that it boots up faster than his monitor can
warm up!! A bit of an exageration, but still quite
impressive speed!

As for your NIC, if you turn off the DHCP option for
TCP/IP in your network settings, this wait will go
away, unless of course you need the DHCP option

--- Bradley Marden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello I just built a new system and I have a little
> problem and I am also looking for a few sugestions.
> The system is an Abit KT7-A-Raid motherboard and an
> AMD athlon 1000 mhz. I have a NIC card connected for
> my cable modem and when it is booting after it
> displays the WIN ME logo it holds there for a while.
> I am pretty sure that I have read something about
> this. It is the NIC trying to find an IP address
> from the host. Am I correct about this and if so is
> there a way to speed up the boot? On the system
> before that I had it didn't do this with the same
> NIC card, the only thing that i changed in the
> configuration is the motherboard and processor.
>
> Also i was wondering is anyone who has used this
> Motherboard and had any experiance with the raid
> array. I have two hard drives one is a 30 gb 7200
> rpm and the other is an older 10 gb 5400 rpm hd. I
> was thinking
>  of using the striping. I read that it is not good
> to use the raid unless you have two identical hard
> drives. I would like some advise on using the RAID
> on this.
> Also anyone who knows or has any advise on how to
> get the most out of this Motherboard.
>
> Thank you all
>
> Bradley Marden
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