Raid 0 Question

[Michael Alford]

I just bought two SATA Maxtor 120 hard drives. My
motherboard is the Asus A7N8X Deluxe(with the latest BIOS)
with two SATA's.
I know you have to go into the Raid BIOS and setup the
raid 0 in there, is there anything else special I need to
do? I am going to be doing a clean install using just Raid
0. Will I need to partion the drive, cause I know XP only
will see 120GB? Also when XP is installing since the Raid
is setup in the Raid BIOS will it install the Striping on
both drives or would I need to do anyhting special to make
that happen? I know a little about Raid just not alot, so
I like to make sure before I really screw things up.
Thank you for your help and have a great day.

Michael

 

[Mike Brearley]

If you set your Raid BIOS up as Raid 0 (stripe), then you are essentially
setting it up so XP sees one large 240Gb drive. XP doesn't need to be
configured for anything, short of supplying the drivers that may be needed
to see the Raid Array. If XP can't find the disk, press F6 during the load
process when XP is first loading from the CD so you can specify the drivers.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike

 

[Michael Alford]

Thank you very much for your help. Have a good day.

 

[Bob Huntley]

Suggest that you unplug any other disk drives on the other (non-RAID)
motherboard connectors during the install. You only need the RAID drives
plus one CD drive.

Otherwise, the Windows installer will allocate the C: drive to the first
partition it finds, D: drive to the next and you will end up with Windows
installed on E: (or whatever) drive. It will still work, but confuses the
hell out of dumb software that simply assumes that it will always find
Windows on C:. (Its also a pain to change the drive letter of the System
drive, so it pays to get it right on first install).