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RAID Problems such as no Freaking RAID at all

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I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR that has a built on Promise RAID controller and I am using 2 40 gig IBM Deskstars to try and run RAID 0+2.

First let me say I know that everything is pluged in correctly and the jumpers on both drives are set for master.

When I boot I can go in to the FastTrac 100 lite (tm) set up screen and set up my array. After I restart the controller sees the array and says that it is functioning. But when I fdisk it will only create a 13 gig primary active partition and it says that is the only space I have on the drive. WTF!! I have switched cables, jumpers channels you name it. I also changed the mobo jumper for the controler back to just ATA 100 and both channels work fine and I can fdisk both drives properly. I noticed that no partition was put on 1 drive at all after I switched back so when I fdisk my array it only puts a 13 gig partition on 1 drive and doesn't do anything to the other.

I don't understand why if the controller is broke it sets up the array and says its functioning but thats as far as I can get. I still have hope

 
its fdisk problem. It can't recognise over 64 gb.
Try partition magic or I think there is a free fdisk which doesn't have this limitation
free fdisk
 
Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried free Fdisk but It will only put a fat16 logical dos drive on the array (2 gig) and one of the drives was still untouched. I know because I am booted up on the drive right now. It still has windows and all of my settings on it.

I have a version of Partition Magic. Will that make a boot disk that will fdisk my array properly
 
Thats strange, I have two 40gig drives (80gig total) on a Highpoint based RAID controller and FDISK could partition them just fine. what do you mean RAID 0+2 ??? do you mean 0+1 ( RAID stripping with mirroring, you need 4 drives for it)?
 
I think he might just mean RAID 0.
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Yea I mean RAID 0


I Fdisk my Array and it says my drives are one 12.9 hard drive But when I format it dos Says its one 1 80 gig drive. Thats good.

Now when I try and load my drivers in XP Set up I get an error (18). XP says there was an error in Oemsetup.sys on drive D.

Right now I am in Win98 and the controller is loaded and my drive is one big 80 giger like its supposed to be with no conflicts in device manager but in My Computer/properties/performance it says my C drive is running in dos mode.
 
I would write 0's to both drives. (To make sure they are at the same stage) then set up your raid, and not fdisk or format. I would let windows deal with it.
 
You have to fdisk or xp dosen't have a place to copy files thus won't start set up.


Anyway this is where I am.


I loaded the win2000 drivers and that worked for setting up xp.

But now when i reboot after I get past the fasttrac bios i get a blue screen that says to checkdisk.

When I reboot after that I get a option sceen that and I select boot last working config and I get back in windows. The only thing I did was update windows.

 
Usually, I set up a RAID stripping array this way (with your controller, it may be different).

- specify and set up the RAID array in the BIOS. This will wipe out all data.
- fdisk using a Win ME start-up disk.
- after fdisk,restart, and format using Win ME start-up disk
- after formatting, restart, pop in winXP CD and booth from CD. Press F6 to specify additional devices
- I pop in floppy of the drivers for my RAID controller. Win XP reads off it, uses the drivers in the floppy. After that everthing is smooth sailing🙂

I noticed that if I don't use F6 to specify devices, win XP setup would give me an error.
 
RanDum, following your procedure is cool to get a fat32 partition but is there any way of getting it formatted under ntfs?
Maybe the only way is to create a small fat32 partition and format the remaining partitions after windows (xp) is underway?
 
After formatting using fat32, during the setup process, it will ask you if you want to convert the fat32 partition to a NTFS partition. This is shortly after pressing F6 and specifying additional devices.

Or, you can skip formatting to fat32 using the winME start-up disk and just pop in the winXP CD and boot from it. XP will automatically format under NTFS.
 
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