Re: Booting from RAID striped

Terry <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1189632234.301354.271430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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Well lets forget about XP for a second.

I set my bios to RAID
I reboot and press Cntl A for Raid options.
When I pick create array I show my 2 160 Gig drives.
I have to highlight both of them to continue.
I get a report that I have one 290G array.
I set this to bootable.
I then go to disk options
I show two drives again.
I have the option to format one or the other. I don't have an option
to format the set.

Should I format each drive separately? I would think I should get an
option to format both at once.

Hello Terry,

Unless your BIOS has the Adaptec drivers 'built in' which I seriously
doubt (and why you need the floppy driver disk to install XP), the BIOS
can only see one drive at a time. I'm not 100% sure about that, but that
is how it should work.

It sounds like you now have one striped 290 GB array. That's good. It
is time to start worrying about XP. I haven't used XP in a while so am
unfamiliar with the disk options during setup. You may be able to format
the array there once the Adaptec drivers are read.

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