Java sataraid

[AndyMoody]

I've tried and successfully installed Limewire and it installed Java at the same time. Now when I reboot I get a warning message come up saying something about Java SataRaid then it goes to BSOD and reboots and does the same thing every time. I uninstalled Limewire and did restore point to before I installed Limewire and Java and everything was OK.

I then tried installing Java from Sun site and had same problem. Any ideas how I can get over this problem as I really want to be able to use Limewire.

Thanks,

Andy.

[Only A Hobo]

It is important you download the installer from Java/Sun rather than installing over the net.

If this does not help please give more details eg Platform, OS, version of LW (exactly) Java version you are trying to get etc.

[Only A Hobo]

As a postscript .. I have googled and found some stuff about Sataraid and can not for the life of me work out exactly what it is (not being exactly a computer expert), or whether it is needed to operate limewire (I think not)

Perhaps you should tell us exactly what the Error message says.

[AndyMoody]

OS is XP Pro.

I'm using DFI Lanparty SLI-DR MB and I understand it is used for the onboard Silicon Image SATA controller as I'm using 2 x Western Digital 160Gb SATA HDD's in RAID1 config. If I uninstall it in add/remove programs via the control panel I'm 99.9% sure it will stuff my system up completely and will not load.

The BSOD says Windows has detected an error plus lots of other text too.

Andy.

[Only A Hobo]

Andy ... I'm lost on this one but I'm hoping someone else will pick up on it and give you some help.

[ukbobboy01]

Andy

I know that RAID technology is used in high end PCs and Novell based servers but that is it.

You may need to either go back to your PC manufacturer for help or a specialist RAID forum because the type of help you are asking for can only be provided by someone with specialist knowledge which may not be available in this forum.




UK Bob

[Grandpa]

Andy

1-Raid is mirroring what that means is that whatever is written to one drive is written to the other so you have exact duplicate drive whereas if one drive fails you have the other thus none of your information is lost. Thus disabling it will do you no good because they both have the same exact operating system and errors on them.

I run in 0-Raid which is known as stripping information can be written to both drives simultaneously thus if one drive is busy it will wright to the other making the computer faster because it does not have to wait to wright to the drive.

LimeWire should not have a problem with Raid configurations but there was a post before from a guy that was having problems with LimeWire and he was running a 0+1-Raid configuration so it is possible that there is a software conflict between LimeWire and your Raid software.

I do not know if the person that made the other post ever figured out the problem or not he never posted back if he did. If you figure the problem out could you let us know.

[ukbobboy01]

Grandpa

I am a RAID novice (no, make that RAID virgin) and I was just wondering, since you have a RAID PC, what are the benefits you get over a normal one or two HD disk PC?

Now, I do understand the “striping” idea, which is very beneficial when running a server that looks after loads of PCs, but a PC in “stand alone” mode seems to have me lost.

Hope you can clear this “mind-fog” for me.



UK Bob

[Grandpa]

ukbobboy01

To the average user 0-Raid SATA will give you about a 10% gain in your benchmark score which will relate to your computer opening web pages and such about 20% faster it will greatly improve multitasking. If you are like me and do photo editing with large files say a 5mp Tiff photo using Adobe Photoshop CS you will be amazed at how much faster it is it seems to be about 100% faster due to the ability to wright to the hard drives twice as fast.

I use 2-Fujitsu 74GB 15K rpm ULTRA 320 SCSI hard drives in 0-Raid and I have a AMD64 3200+ with stock hard drives it benches about the same as a Intel P4 2.3GHz.

Set to 0-Raid with the SCSI it benches at the same as a P4 3.2GHz

When I overclock my CPU 15% I can out preform a P4 4GHz processor with a 3200+ which stock operating speed is 2GHz.

I do not know if you have ever played Half Life 2 or not but if you have the water in it looks pretty real with a normal set up on my computer. But when I went to 0-Raid it looks like if you touch the screen you hand will get wet. The ability to write twice as fast to the hard drive makes quite a bit of difference when you are running applications that require large data transfers but to the average user they probably would not notice that much of a difference.

A person would have to weigh the cost of setting up a raid configuration verses there needs. I went to the max with mine and bought most of my components on E-Bay. It took a while to get the components but I saved allot of $$$ but it still cost me about $500 to do it. But to me it was worth it.

One other thing I noticed was when I ran a single 7200rpm Hard drive I downloaded the Windows 64 Beta OS it took about 40 minutes 300Kbs from Microsoft.com after I installed 0-Raid it took about 15 at 700KBs and I used to DL from LW at about 250KBs and now I can consistently DL at 700KBs. I do not know if this is due to the 0-Raid or not.

[ukbobboy01]

Grandpa

Thanks for the info, it is quite clear that any large disk intensive application will benefit from RAID.

Cheers



UK Bob