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Please Help me with my RAID0 set up!

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wodeath

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ok, this is my first time building a computer so forgive me if i sound a little slow.
i have two ibm 20gs, one was a fresh drive and the other had stuff on it.
i installed winXP on the fresh drive, and hooked it up to the raid controller - a Promise Fastrak 100tx2 in the IDE1 slot.
it runs fine.
when i change the array in the raid's bios to use both drives in a RAID 0 array, it doesnt work. How do i incorporate this second drive?
i tried mirroring the two, and transfered the winxp install and everything over to the 2nd, then switch back to raid0 but that doesnt work.
im probably missing something blatantly obvious, but if you could just point me in the right direction it would be great!
 
RAID 0 is drive striping, where the corresponding percentage of the total storage space from all of your drives is written to one disk in 'stripes'. This speeds read/write operations. Mirroring is the real-time duplication of all data on one disk on another disk. RAID0 is different from mirroring, and you cannot simply convert one into the other.

The stripe will have to be prepared before you install the OS in the BIOS of the RAID card. Make sure that the boot is occuring from the RAID controller, and not the internal IDE controller. I have no experience of IDE RAID cards - don't really see the point of them - but I would imagine that the procedure and Windows issues are the same as a SCSI RAID solution.

Is that the answer you were looking for?
 
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