Problems with RAID

[[YF] Daniel]

I have just installed an IDE RAID card and striped 3 drives. I installed the RAID controller's drivers and windows picks up my striped set. I can't get the stripe to show up in "My Computer", it only shows up in the device manager. How do I format this stripe and get it to show up in "My Computer"

Huh? SCSI? It's IDE.

Only shows my boot drive.
Also, how do I defragment?
-Thanks in advance.

 

[BeernuT]

It says SCSI and Raid controllers. It fits under the "Raid controller" description.

If your running XP then right click on my computer and go to manage. On the left side panel you will see Storage. Under that choose disk management. On the right side of the screen towards the bottom you should see your new drive space. Right click on it and select Format.


-bn

 

[BeernuT]

Also under the Storage Section is the Defragment section.

-bn

 

[[YF] Daniel]

I'm getting a 30 GB stripe when I should be getting an 80.
I have:
10 GB
30 GB
40 GB
It shows the full HDD sizes in the RAID conroller menu, but stripes 30.
I'll try unstripping and reformatting them all.
Any other Ideas?

Thanks BeernuT.

 

[DougLite]

RAID-0 capacity = (capacity of smallest drive) * (number of drives). Since you are using a 10GB drive in your set, you get 30GB. You need to use JBOD mode if you want all of the space on all of the disks to appear as one volume.