SATA Raid Setup Question

[hankjrfan00]

This is my first time to setup sata raid and is also my first time to do raid at all in Windows 2000.

I got 2 250 gig Seagate Drives and I am trying to set them up to be mirrored. It appears to be setup fines in bios but my problem is within windows. When I go to computer management to set up the partition is it still shows 2 seperate drives instead of the single raid volume. So it appears that it is letting me create a partition on each drive which is not what I want.

I am sure that I am doing somthing stupid wrong.

Hardware:

Motherboard: DFI nF3 250-AL

Hard Drives: 2x SATA Seagate Barracuda 250gb

OS: Windows 2000 Server

Also what is the max partition size in windows 2000.

Thanks

[nmX.Memnoch]

What RAID controller are you using? Or are you trying to use Windows 2000's built in software RAID (which is not recommended).

[ripken204]

max part size i beleive is 137gigs

if windows shows 2 drives then you did not setup the raid mirror correctly

u will need to recreate the raid in the bios, then reinstall windows

when you install windows it should show only 1 drive, if you see 2 then you did something wrong again

[hankjrfan00]

it should show only 1 drive, if you see 2 then you did something wrong again

That is what I thought. I am trying to set this up post windows install. This is not the volume I wanted windows windows installed on. It will be used only for storage/backup purposes.

I deleted the mirrored volume then recreated it and this did not show any difference.

Also device manager shows all devices installed correctly.

max part size i beleive is 137gigs

Can I use a third party program to create a larger partition?

Thanks

[ripken204]

i think its a windows 2000 problem, unless they fixed it, so no

[hankjrfan00]

Just an update.

All it took to fix it was to upgrade to Service Pack 4. I would have tried it before but I thought that it already had service pack 4.