Disk Management Setup

[Herb]

I just finished installing Win2000 A.S. on a Dell
PowerEdge 4200.I set the HDD up like this:
Drives 0 and 1 are raid 1(logical drive 0)
Drives 2,3 and 4 are raid 5(logical drive 1)
Drive 5 is a Hotspare.
My question is how do I set up logical drive 1 in
the Disk Management?
Is it supposed to be a Basic or Dynamic Drive.What
else do I need to do?
Thanks in advanced!
Herb

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Herb

If you don't need dynamic disks, keep them basic, see this MS Knowledge
Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=329707

You haven't told us if you are using a hardware RAID controller, but I
guess that you do, as you mention a hotspare. In that case, just create
your RAID 5 with Array Manager (Dell utility that replaces Disk Management)
or FAST (another Dell utility), and then format.

Best regards

Bjorn