Windows met a size limit?

[venturi]

Scenario- with 4 250GB drives raided (actual is 948Gb) -it

works.

With 4 300GB drives it does not.

With 3 300Gb drives it boots and works

The C: partition in all scenarios was 20GB. I usaully

partition 350 for apps, 400Gb for games, and the rest for

files, movies, CD copies, etc. Yes, I also tried one big C: partition, but that did not work either.

Anyhow. Microsoft won't help me on the issue unless I pay

their hourly server support fee. The problem occurs on

Win 2003 Ent Srv both 32 and 64 bit flavors.

The Suse build has no problem with the size and loads

great!

Just Windows is the b***h.

Any ideas? Remember, it is not hardware or config, if

other OSes are OK with it. Remember that it breaks only

when I brach the 1T threshold.

Here are my rig specs:

Dual Opteron 250

8GB ecc ram (fastest)

tyan s2885 board, latest bios

6800 Ultra Nvidia

Win Ent Server 64 latest released build

(4) SATA RAID 300GB drives (over 1 Terabyte storage)

Dual Layer DVD burner

Thanks in advance for any help you render.

[MadGutts]

What style of RAID are you using and what is the RAID controller?

[tguy]

This might help.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...bc_sto_cokp.asp

[Marsden]

<<Remember, it is not hardware or config>>

That hardly applies if you are running Win2K3 X64... it is beta software...

As for the 32bit version... is the SATA RAID on the HCL for Win2K3 Server? Just because another OS runs... doesn't mean squat!

[blabMOXkd]

what is your raid controller???? built into the motherboard?

not all raid is included in the HCL

my Win2k3 install needed additional drivers to procede (and yet another driver after install to read the drives properly), but both FC3 and Suse Enterprise server picked up my raid