I finally installed my brand new Gigabit switch. It wasn't complicated in itself: I had to disable the onboard NIC of 2 of my boxes (my S2466N-4M and my K7SEM), remove the cross-connect cable linking their Intel 1000Base-T cards and add a network card to my old workstation (based on an Asus P2B-DS). The only problem I had was when I powered back the Asus one and tried to install the drivers. I couldn't because the card wasn't seated well-enough in its PCI slot. I re-installed it and everything was fine on the hardware side. On two of my machines I had to modify hosts and lmhosts and configure the drivers to use DHCP. After that it was up and running. Informal benchmark showed transfer speed around 240Mbps (when copying files from a RAID-5 to a RAID-0 across the network)
I also installed one more WD1200JB to my main workstation because of the strange noise I was hearing last week. I was hoping to mirror the disk I already have but I just can't. I followed carefully the instructions in the help file but when it says to right click the volume and select "Add mirror", the "Add mirror" is greyed. I tried through the command line utility (diskpart) but when I issue the command to create the mirror, it tells me that this functionallity isn't available for my version of XP (XP Professional). I am sure it can be done. If you know how to do it, let me know...
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