First time running RAID0 Config...

[Vacca]

Hi all... This is my first time installing a raid0 configuration. I've been reading about it and wanted to come here and make sure that I'm doing everything right...

Ok, I have an NF7-S and I plan on using the onboard sata controller. I bought 2x60 gig maxtors (7200rpm 8mb cache). They're both the exact same model.

I had planned on doing it exactly like this...

Hook the drives up, boot into the raid config utility. Create the striped array... After this is finished, reboot and pop the xp cd in, hit f6, install drivers from floppy. After this I believe it wants me to install the driver for the controller, and that looks like it.

Is there anything I'm missing, or should know about?

[Awperator]

Hi all... This is my first time installing a raid0 configuration. I've been reading about it and wanted to come here and make sure that I'm doing everything right...

Ok, I have an NF7-S and I plan on using the onboard sata controller. I bought 2x60 gig maxtors (7200rpm 8mb cache). They're both the exact same model.

I had planned on doing it exactly like this...

Hook the drives up, boot into the raid config utility. Create the striped array... After this is finished, reboot and pop the xp cd in, hit f6, install drivers from floppy. After this I believe it wants me to install the driver for the controller, and that looks like it.

Is there anything I'm missing, or should know about?


Everything sounds good. Remember though, windoze formats to the deafult 4kb cluster size, so if you want to format to something different, keep your old install of xp, boot into that with the raid array set up, and then right click on my computer, go to manage, go to disk section, and you can format w/ the cluster size you want. You might just be able to do that in my computer too by right clicking on the hard drive, but oh well. Yeah, your setup sounds right. Have a backup computer just in case something goes wrong so you can ask more questions, and enjoy your raid config!

- Awperator

[Vacca]

This is a dumb question, but I didn't see an answer. Do I set both these drives as master or master/slave?

[Penance]

SATA drives cannot be set as slaves.