raid 0 on asus k8v

[XRdirtHead]

I'm trying to set up a raid 0.

I've read my stripe and cluster sizes should be the same....right?

To change cluster size a way to do it would be to boot to windows with a ide hd and then install the via sata drivers and then when windows can see the raid hd's I could then use windows to change from 4k to whatever my stripe size will be....right?

My ide hd has win98 on it. I can boot into windows but when I try to boot to my cd rom with xp in it so I can install xp on the ide hd xp can't see the ide drive. How can I boot to windows but then windows xp won't see it for the install.......

I was trying to do this with a sata hd on the promise contoller with xp already on it and my raid drives on the via contoller but windows kept seeing the hard drives on the via controller and wouldn't boot to the hd on the promise controller with windows on it. If I disable the via controller I can boot to windows on the promise controller but then I can't see the hd's I want to set up with raid....grrrr..
thanks for any help,
ed

 

[Algere]

Dunno about the Promise controller but for the Via you'll have to hit the tab key to get into VIA SATA RAID/JBOD setup after the first screen during boot.

BTW you don't need a PATA IDE drive to setup the SATA drives.

As for using the Promise controller to bootup instead of the Via you may need to change boot settings in BIOS.

 

[XRdirtHead]

I booted up to windows xp with a ide hd but I can't see my sata raid hd's in my computer.........I wanted to use windows to change the cluster size...

 

[Algere]

Did you install the Via SATA drivers on your IDE Drive w/ the Via SATA RAID utility?
And if your new drives aren't partitioned they won't show in Windows

Programs such as PartitionMagic will allow you to resize clusters and create Partitions in Windows

 

[XRdirtHead]

I did find it but it wasn't showing up under my computer. I had to go into computer management....