Vista software RAID0 fails to initialize after reboot if > 2TB

[AlexVas]

Help!

I've looked over whole internet, and I am very surprised to be unable to
find any answers to this.

I am setting up Windows Dynamic Striped (RAID0) or Spanned volume (GPT) over
four SATA hard drives 1Tb each. Everything is successful. I format the drive,
copy stuff on to it, read it back, its fast, very nice. Then I reboot. After
boot up I foind out that my D: drive is gone, i.e., volume is offline (as
reported by Disk Manager). I can boot as I am using separate (IDE or SATA)
hard drive to boot the Vista from.

Now, if I configure the striped volume to be less then 2Tb (e.g., stripe two
1Tb disks or four x 500Mb partition each), everything works fine. I reboot
and the volume is still there running happily.

No windows event log I can find corresponds to this problem.

The configuration is:

Gigabyte motherboard on Intel P35 chipset (another box has X38)
Vista 64bit
c: 1x HD (IDE 800Gb in one box, SATA 320Gb in another) to boot from.
d: 4x 1Tb SATA HD (I've tried IDE emulation, AHCI and Intel Matrix RAID -
h/w raid disabled)
z: IDE DVDROM

Is there anybody has the same problem?

Thanks,
Alex

 

[DL]

IMO I would'nt touch software raid with a bargepole, not that it helps you,
I realise

 

[AlexVas]

Finally, I've installed Vista SP1 and it fixed the problem! So it was windows
bug after all.

 

[DL]

Well glad its all sorted

Finally, I've installed Vista SP1 and it fixed the problem! So it was
windows
bug after all.

 

[AlexVas]

Yeah. But you were right, I need to get hardware raid... What should I look
for in the controller? I need speed. It's not video or other streaming, it is
pretty random type of access. Reliability is not important. Most of the
content is read only... about 4-6TB.

Another thing. I've got six computers reading the same data. Can it be
stored centrally, and then feeded into six boxes via fiber or something?

Thanks in advance,
Alex