gnwhite1201
Technical User
I am curretly in the process of createing a new system with a hardware controled RAID 0. I had read that it could be done within WIN2K but have run into issues:
* After I completed the install of the RAID controller (a Silicon Image SIL0680) I created the raid from its utility.
* I then began to install win2k. After win2k sees the raid drive it assumes that it needs to be formatted which I can't argue w/ so I let it. Once it gets to the end (and w/ a 244g drive thats a long time), it tells me that the drive is no good, which I know to be false.
* I then just loaded the OS on to one of the drives separatly just to make sure that my assumtions where right. The O/S installed w/o issue.
* I then tried to create it within win2k its self which I also read could work then it would not boot up again.
* At this moment and about 4 reinstalls later I have rellented to the idea of putting my O/S on a 20gb and using the other two for programs and data, I was hoping I could have them all on one large partition.
* Now my questions are:
1. Is it possible to have the O/S on a RAID 0 drive?
2. How can I tell win2K to direct all programs to a folder on the strip drives w/o me having to do it manually everytime I install a new program?
Thanks very much in advance!
Glenn
* After I completed the install of the RAID controller (a Silicon Image SIL0680) I created the raid from its utility.
* I then began to install win2k. After win2k sees the raid drive it assumes that it needs to be formatted which I can't argue w/ so I let it. Once it gets to the end (and w/ a 244g drive thats a long time), it tells me that the drive is no good, which I know to be false.
* I then just loaded the OS on to one of the drives separatly just to make sure that my assumtions where right. The O/S installed w/o issue.
* I then tried to create it within win2k its self which I also read could work then it would not boot up again.
* At this moment and about 4 reinstalls later I have rellented to the idea of putting my O/S on a 20gb and using the other two for programs and data, I was hoping I could have them all on one large partition.
* Now my questions are:
1. Is it possible to have the O/S on a RAID 0 drive?
2. How can I tell win2K to direct all programs to a folder on the strip drives w/o me having to do it manually everytime I install a new program?
Thanks very much in advance!
Glenn