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RAID help for a Raid NooB...

MrDudeMan

MrDudeMan

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i have read tons of articles on this already but i want everyones opinion....

i am running windows xp with a maxtor d740x and a 120gxp (both 60gb) in RAID 0. first of all...it didnt lose any of the info on the 120gxp even though it said it put it in the array. when i got in windows the first time, i installed the controller, rebooted, and then when i came back both of the drives where there with their original names.

how do i know its in RAID and how do i know its working? i tried to copy 4gb of stuff from 1 drive in the array to another and it was moving just as slow as before...

do i need to download a utility or something to measure the speed? or what am i gonna see with noticeable speed inmprovement?


bah this sucks someone help me out. im already having a really bad day. if you didnt see my previous thread, my Lite-On 40x ate a CD and died!
 
What motherboard? Operating system? Separate Raid controller card? What type/brand? How do you have the cables connected?
 
i am using the gigabyte 8IRXP, windows XP, raid controller is built in, i have each of them connected to a different channel on a single device cable, one is a maxtor d740x and the other is a 120gxp, both 60gb.

when i boot up it says "RAID 1+0" but i want it in RAID 0.


 
Remake the array in the RAID controller's BIOS and check the settings to make sure you are booting from it.

Before you use a new array, you have to FDISK and format.
 
I think what's happing it that it's seeing the drives as 2 separate drives and not configuring them in raid.
I've got an MSI M.B., and have a single drive connected to the onboard raid ide channel. It shows up as raid 1 + 0 and has it's own drive letter along with the drives hooked up to my primary ide channel. If your drives where in raid 0, you would have lost the info on the drive and had 1 drive letter to represent the storage capacity of both drives.
 
yeah that is exactly what is happening...

i tried messing around with it and now when i boot into windows it has a single drive but its still only 60gb, but it says RAID 2+0, nothing about RAID 1.


i dont have any idea how to use this...do i have to boot off of it to make use of the RAID? or can i have it as kind of a secondary IDE Channel.
 
You should be able to use it as a secondary drive.
I'm not an expert on raid, but I think because you have info on one of the drives, it's preventing it from merging with the second drive.
In raid, it will read and write to both drives at once. Since the info on the one drive can only be read from that drive, this might be where the problem comes from.
You'll have to start the configuration with fresh drives for it to work. fdisk and format.
 
i dont understand though....

i just cleaned both of them off. i formatted in windows using NTFS...will i have to have them in FAT32??

i saved all of my info on my main drive so they are both clean

i dont know how to do this. someone talk to me on AOL instant messenger or something...my screen name is Bandtank

or if you can point me to some extremely helpful guides....

i found some guides but they assume you know about it already and i am clueless

thanks
 
Hook up both drives as masters one on each of the 2 Raid channels. You should have a screen come up on boot up. With a HiPoint controller you hit ctrl- H to enter the Raid Bios. setting up the arrary is pretty simple from there. Select the 2 drives in the Bios, choose the block size and create the array. Do you want to make it bootable?
 
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