RAID 0 Question – 3868 days old

[whitewolf359]

Just got my raid O installed tonight on winxp with two 20 gb drives . I was always under the impression if the drives are identical in size your raid drives would total the amount of both the drives

Example 20gb X 2 should be 40

But in my setup its saying the drive is only a 20gb and not the 40 it should be,

Any idea what happened ? I used the drivers that were made for my controller card.

[Jizzy]

Did you stripe it? It sounds like you set up your array as a mirror (one drive gets all the data, and it's instantly backed up to the other drive). Check in the RAID array setup (should be when you boot up your computer and press ctrl + f, at least on my Promise card).

[whitewolf359]

I chose raid 0

Also the device manager recognizes it as a
Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device

[whitewolf359]

Just check disk management and here is how XP see's the drive

Any ideas? Can I just extend the partion in windows?

[AmStoned]

wolf, seriously man, windows will not tell you the exact info. get into the promise controller card's bios upon bootup and check it again. I gotta agree w/ Jiz here, looks like you picked mirror RAID. looks like you'll need to set it up again.

BTW, you did set both drives at master and put them on their own channel right?

[whitewolf359]

Yes I made sure to do that in the fastrak utility it shows the two drives with a combined total of 38. XX gigs.

[whitewolf359]

Here is the data from the fastrack build utility

                     VIEW ARRAY MENU

NO#          RAID Mode           Total Drives        Capacity(MB)      Status

Array1          0                     2               39082         Functional

_______________________________________________________________________________

                     VIEW DRIVE Assignments

Channel ID                   Capacity            Assignment         Mode

1: Mas Maxtor 2b020h1          19541               Array 1            U5
2: Mas Maxtor 2b020h1          19541               Array 1            U5

_______________________________________________________________________________

                     System Resource Config

Channel 1         Interupt 5  I/o Port D800
Channel 2         Interupt 5  I/O Port D000

[AmStoned]

Aaaah, shit, I know why. Ok, try this. After you RAID the drives in the controller card BIOS, boot into DOS and format the pair of drives, now acting as one drive (C. After that, create partition w/ Fdisk. I like to do it as one to lessen the confusion, again, that's just me. Now when you install WinXP, let winxp convert the drive to NTFS. When WinXP's done installing, you should get one big chunk of C: as NTFS and 38.xxGB, or something close to it. That's how I set mine up.

[whitewolf359]

AmStoned thanx again I reformatted as you said anrd reinstalled now my things are all in order.

BTW just noticed your "Servant of Wolfsburg
" title....LOL

[AmStoned]

Sweeeet!

Yeah, my title. hehe. Can't afford a wolfsburg yet, but some day.

[whitewolf359]

Should have posted this yesterday but I feel asleep at the PC.

AmStoned you were a big help here and now my PC is running just great on the raid setup.

Thanx again!