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Raid technology with IDE

Hello, I've buy two HD Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm ata/133 (both have partition and formated), my motherboard is a Asus a7v133 with raid for ide (Promise Fast Track 100 "lite" with latest bios version 1.31).

When I start my computer, the Promise bios works fine, show the informations about my two HD and set on performance. After that, I boot with the win98 boot disk, I only have c: and it's only 39 000mb instead of 78 000mb??? But I can install windows98se but I wanna have my raid working!!!

If you need more information, just have to ask, thank you so much!!!

ElPeigne

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I've forgot to says that my bios is set to boot on raid, my jumper ATA/RAID is on RAID and both HD are master on each IDE slot.

Thank you again!!!

obz

It sounds like you need to go into the BIOS for the raid controller (as opposed to the main BIOS) and setup the array, it has probably defaulted to a mirror as opposed to a stripe. if you delete the existing array and create a new stripe array all should be ok.

OBZ

ElPeigne

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no it's write 2+0 stripe (...) 78 000mb

ElPeigne

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c'mon, the auction is raised, let's go experts

ElPeigne

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OK OK, we'll say that it's a tough one, raised again

pig_monster

Obz comment will fix it for sure.

Read the documentation that come with your mobo for exact instructions on how to change your RAID configuration.
From what you've said in your post, it's either:
RAID Type: Concatenation - or
RAID Type: Striping (RAID-0)

A great site I recommend looking at is:
http://www.cuddletech.com/veritas/raidtheory/x31.html

Kevin...*

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ElPeigne

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great answer, thank all of you