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help me setting up a raid 0 array

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deanx0r

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Here we go, I have a Gigabyte 8iEXP with a Promise fast track controller on it and 3 hdds of 80GB each (Maxtor d740x and 2 diamond plus 9).

I did a fresh install of win2k on the main d740x drive, build a raid 0 array with the fast track array builder, installed the raid drivers. and reformatted my drives (in win2k). To that point, it seems to be working (fast check displaying an OK status on my drives) but I am getting only half of the capacity of my drive (80GB/160GB).

Is there something I did wrong? I re-read the manual and the mention fdisk to format my drives. I don't have fdisk, nor a floppy drive to launch fdisk from it. In the other hand I want the array to be formatted as a ntfs drive, so I guess fdisk won't help here. Any alternative solution?

Thx in advance.
 
1) Boot into your RAID BIOS and double check that the 2 drives are allocated as a stripe set. It sounds like they're set to mirror.

2) Where are you seeing the 80G capacity? In Disk Management or in Windows Explorer? It could be a formatting issue.

I don't have experience w/ the Promise controller specifically, mine's a Highpoint.
 
I have the the same problem.......my 2-40gb Maxtor hard drives appear in My Computer in XP as a single 40gb drive.
I have a hacked Promise controller that has the bios set up done and fdisked both drives. In device manager it for the Promise 2+0 Stripe/Raid0 it shows 76340mb capacity and 38170 as unallocated space......Volume L has 38170mb capacity.
 
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