IDE RAID....?

[otheos]

I am sure this is trivial for many of you, so I just ask some of your expertise.

I set it up to stripe 64K. The two drives are Fujitsu 10G (identical) 5400rpm. I read this:


Before you can use the RAID array, you must first boot into pure DOS, run FDISK and then re-format your new RAID-drive, otherwise you may not see any speed improvements.


well, I actually booted Win2K, went to console and partitioned/formated from there to NTFS. Is that OK, or should I do it in DOS and format to FAT32, then go to Win2k and convert to NTFS.

This will not be my OS disk.

Thanks in advance.

[daverme]

As long as you configured the RAID array in the RAID BIOS beforehand, you should be OK.

[darkmallard]

You can partition it in Win2K. If you only have 2 drives and you have the OS on one of them, you need to partition the OS drive into AT LEAST 2 partitions. A stripe set cannot contain the OS (system/boot) partition. You also will only have a performance gain if the controller can write to two drives at the same time. Otherwise, it will just write 64K to one drive, while the other drive waits to write the next 64K. If you satisfy all of those requirements, your stripe set should be OK.