SA6402 on Windows XP Pro?

[Richard Helmke_2]

I am trying to help my church upgrade the disk storage on a small video editing station, AVID XPress Pro, built on a xw8200. Currently we use it to edit some DV tapes, but in the future it will used to produce a weekly cable program. To do this we will be running some camera feeds at 2:1 compression which require more Mb/s than a single drive; the commonly acceptable solution is RAID 1+0 to handle the sustained speed requirements for recording an hour program.

I would like to use the Smart Array 6402 to handle a split shelf 4354 enclosure filled with 10Krpm disks. One small detail -- no where in the description of the SA6402 is referenced support for this controller on Windows XP Pro. Has anyone done it? I'd really like to do it with HP because of the good exprience I have had with the SA5304A on some Alphaservers I manage.

Any thoughts about using the SA6402 with Win XP Pro?
-Rich Helmke

[Steven Clementi]

Richard:


My initial thought is that it would probably work using the Win2k3 driver. Don;t have any experience with it though on a workstation running XP.

As you have noticed, there isn't any real support for it and HP would probably give you a harder time if a configuration issue arrises.


Steven