[Pc_Support] WinXP 64-Bit Software Raid Setup Howto?

[Bryan J. Smith]

First off, NT5.x (200x/XP) requires use a LDM Disk Label (Dynamic
Disc) for any volume management.  Under Linux, I actually recommend
using the LVM Disk Label when using any MD volumes as well.  Long
story short, because the legacy BIOS/DOS Disk Label (Basic Disc) has
absolutely no reservations for volume meta-data, it's easy to "lose a
volume."  It used to happen to me all-the-time under NT 4.0 and it
has under any Linux system I've encountered without LVM/LVM2.

Secondly, IIRC, _no_ version of Windows XP, not even Pro, supports
mirroring.  Only the server editions of 2000/2003 do.  I'm not sure
about Windows 2000 Professional, it might.  Only striping and
spanning (concating) is supported on non-server versions.  You set it
up via Disk Manager.


--- David Simmons <dave at dgnal.net> wrote:

> Anyone got one?
> 
> Have two identical SATA drives.  Am hoping to stripe part of the
> drive for
> performance for video work.
> 
> Am anticipating setup to be:
> 
> Disk 1:    100Gb OS Partition         200GB Raid-0 Part I
> Disk 2:    200GB Raid-0 Part II       Extra 100Gb of space
> 
> I have the partitioning setup...but for the life of me can't figure
> out
> how to create a raid array using those two partitions!?  Here's
> where
> Linux REALLY shines...much easier/intuitive!
> 
> Bottom line - what am i missing?  Help was, of course, no
> help...and
> googling shows alot of HowTo's for motherboard based RAIDing
> setup...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> dave
> 
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