Raid question

[snidy]

I have raid stripe with two western digetal 40 gig hard drives, shouldn't it be recognized as one drive, my system still shows drive c and d, and d is empty, am I doing something wrong?

 

[Boonesmi]

sounds like its not set up right

if the raid is setup right it will only show as a single 80gb drive


is the jumper on the motherboard set for "raid" or is it set for "ata100"?
are your two harddrives on ide ports 3 and 4? (i would set them both as master, one on ide3 and the other on ide4)

then when your pc starts to boot up it should give you a screen for a few seconds where you have the option to go onto "raid setup"
from there you should be able to finish setting it up

 

[snidy]

Yes to all of those settings, when I boot up it says that the raid is functionable, and when I go to the setup in bios, everything looks like the manual says it should look like, so I'm stuck, this is my first time trying this, so hopefully someone can give me some advice, thanks.

 

[breweyez]

are you doing a mirror? only 2 drives? need more info there. Is the raid HPT controller? I had a problem using the HPT bios to do what I needed. So I used the included software to make it happen in Win2K.

 

[snidy]

I'm not using a mirror, I'm just striping them.

 

[mike2fix]

Check the jumpers on the HD's, are they set to be masters.

 

[breweyez]

mike2fix may have the answer. Personally, I would use 2 drives in a mirror. If I had more I would stripe. You probably have to use them as Masters on bothe channels. I would consult the manual there. If you cant get it to work in the bios, sometimes there is software that will allow you to talk to the cards bios in a GUI.

 

[GiGoLo]

<< You probably have to use them as Masters on bothe channels >>



I'm using an ABIT TH7-II RAID mobo and have 2 - 40GB IBM 120gxps running RAID 0. Both are on the same cable, one set to master, one to slave. No problems here. The only problem (not really a problem but something I noticed) was that if you try to format in DOS mode, it will not see the drive as the correct size as it needs the RAID driver present to be able to do so. The only way would be to boot to your OS cd and do the partitioning and formatting from there (if you're using winnt, win2k, or winxp).

On another note, I'm not sure if this depends on what RAID controller you use (mine's on the HPT 370), but I ran benchmarks on my system using both drives on the same cable, and tried it again on separate IDE channels and noticed absolutely no difference. Of course there were tiny differences in the benchmark results, but they're negligible (something like 40kps difference which is nothing).