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Create RAID-5 volume in W2K Server

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FreshPrince

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I have 3 SCSI disks and installed W2K serv on 1st disk in 2 GB partition.

Is there anyway to setup RAID-5 still or do I need to start over?
 
If it's hardware RAID you're probably starting over. If you're talking about Software RAID, I'd be weary to trust it and would look into getting a hardware RAID controller.
 
is there anyway to start over without a raid controller and put raid-5 on there? I'm in the server install screen now, and w2k install doesn't seem to have a way to setup raid-5 .....

the whole story is cdw forgot to install the raid controller and we're stuck, so I'm tryint to figure out a way to put software raid-5 on there, but how????
 
RAID-5 requires 3 spindles (3 HDs) regardless of whether it's hardware of software.
1 = 1/2 Data
2 = 1/2 Data
3 = Parity Info

(Yes, the parity info can be striped as well, but that's all just variations on the theme. You need to have 2 out of the 3 drives operational in order to recover (still run) all the data.)

Almost forgot: "What Nothinman said." as usual.

--Woodie
 
I was typing when you posted.

w/o the hardware card, you need 4 drives: 1 to boot the server from, and the other three to be the RAID-5 array.

--Woodie
 
That's the catch-22 with software (OS) based raid. Must boot the OS in order to see the RAIDed (logical) drive, but you can't boot the OS unless you can see the boot drive.

It sounds like you'll have to wait for CDW to ship out the raid controller. HW raid is better anyway.

--Woodie
 
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