K9A Platinum - Not seeing RAID Array on restart...

Hello again guys...
Here's the deal...
The computer will not recognize the RAID array when I choose to restart from inside Windows. If I press the reset on the computer or I do a shutdown then reboot, it works fine. Also, this morning I finished a clean install of Vista 64 and forgot to turn off sleep mode like I normally do, and when I came back home I got a tasty blue screen. When I tired to restart I got a message stating that the RAID driver was corrupt or missing. I reloaded Vista again, but I still have the issue of the machine not seeing the RAID array upon restart, and I have tried this about 10 times with the same results.
Restart = No Recognized RAID Array.
Cold Boot, Reset Switch or CTRL+ALT+DEL = No problems.
My system specs are in my sig below.
There was one other tidbit, I had a problem with this motherboard failing to load Windows with 4GB of RAM installed when I first got her, and thru this forum and the MSI help center, it was suggested I update my BIOS to a beta version that was out at the time. I see now that the version is now a standard release v1.6, should I go to the release BIOS or just stay with the current one?
Thanks for your time!

Yes I can. I first installed XP Pro since I was testing system stability with my new 6000+. Every soft reboot results in the array being undefined. I have to wait until the controller scans and says there is no array, then I can reset it to make it see the arrays. If I reset before the controller scans, it still shows no arrays.
Vista 64 Ultimate will only install on my K9A platinum if the following is true:
1) The SATA controller is in RAID mode, I have 4 SATA HD's, none are striped, and my DVD is external
2) The desired HD/array must be the first boot device, if the DVD is first it will refuse to recognize the partition as valid to use
If I use Native IDE or AHCI mode, Vista doesn't see any partitions. If I use Legacy IDE mode, Vista will start the install, but on reboot the motherboard pauses for 5 minutes and tells me the HD has an error and I have to hit F1 to continue.
I only recently got Vista 64 Ultimate stable again. I was having a problem where the system would power off instantly when it reached the desktop. I replaced the power supply. I then had trouble getting the drivers installed without crashing the OS. One thing I noticed while reinstalling Vista is that Microsoft automatically updates the driver for the RAID Controller. The driver version is 2.5.1540.41 and the version that the ATI 7.6. and 7.7 want to install in 2.5.1540.36. That would put it out of sync with the ATI RAID Console driver. The next reboot would result in crashing. Can't prove that is why though.

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Ekimino wrote:This was the output of dmraid. So you should just change in fstab and in Grub your device name from /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdap1
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K9A2 Platinum not loading raid drivers sb600 or promise for raid 0

I am tired of trying by myself, hopefully you guys can help me out Ive been fighting this thing for 2days now and i hate this computer I'm on that feels like 28k dial up.
i know theres the promise plugs and the sb600, and i know they have different drivers. i also know that you have to disable the sb600 raid to get the promise working and vise versa *read the manual for that*. i set up the raid in raid configure *<alt-f>* and set it to raid 0 and assign the raid, and its fully functional.
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integrated peripherals
extra raid controller enabled
in I/O devices on chip sata controller disabled *tried both enabled and disabled same problem*
it does not show drives in the sata ports but i figured that since it only shows 1-4 and the internal promise are the 5/6 ports.
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i have installed windows on one drive and booted up using the same drivers was able to configure everything was slightly inclined to just say screw it 1 drive it is. but it was a shame since i bought them both to raid 0 em from the start. loaded windows up and even installed drivers.
i also heard that u need to do full format sometimes to get the raid to work if you have tried both raid drivers so i did slow fat format... no avail did it twice. and fast the rest. if you guys know of any boot-able type formating program that i could throw on a floppy disk that would be great too, if thats the case.
i am at a wall and frustrated as all hell with what Ive done so far hope u guys can help me out, tried to be as detailed as possible but i bet i missed something .
rig specs*dont know if this will help but w/e*
msi K9A2 platinum
amd 4200 duel core socket am2
1gig of patriot 667 ram 512x2
ati x1900gt video card
Samsung spin point 160gb sata drive x2 *praying to god to put it in raid 0 once again*
THX FOR READING :D

Quote from: asd9000 on 17-May-08, 08:51:19
did all those settings. and have the newest and the disk version of the drivers.
do u guys really think that it not being able to find the driver file a power issue? either way i ll do anything at this point i rewired some stuff where the video card has its own rail and the hard drives have theirs with the cd-rom drive. took out my fan controler and really power hungry after market video card fan replaced with an old 60mm fan.
Error once again... ??? DAMN FTT3.inf file
edited: cause i sounded like an angry a$$hole with that first line :P
Stop swearing here! It's NOT allowed.
As for the floppy, goto the command prompt of a Windows machine, then type "format a:" and let the floppy format, if your floppy shows any error throw it away and try another.
It's not uncommon floppies fail.

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I have read so many other post that have similar topics my head is in a spin.
I've had similar problems to most other people when installing windows with raid I get the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
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Thanks for the reply Maesus,
I managed to get the 4 disk RAID set up OK.
The other problem I seem to have now is that when I insert a disc into my DVD drive it causes the system to go a bit slow, the mouse would stutter on the screen when I try moving it and would sometimes not move until the disc had stopped spinning. I have two DVD writes attached to the 40 pin IDE connector on the motherboard. This connector is controlled by the JMICRON chip. In the BIOS I have it set up to act as IDE and not RAID. I had initially just let windows pick up on this device and it installed it's own drivers, but I remember someone on another post saying that if you install the JMICRON RAID drivers from the motherboard driver disc it might make thing better. but it hasn't.
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New Builder needs some info K9A Plat. RAID Array help

This is a new build AMD 64x2 6000+, K9A platinum, Lite On DVD Re Writeable SATA, 2x74Gig WD Raptors in Raid 0, Asus X1950 pro Thermaltake 700 W PSU Crossfire cert.
BIOS registered my drives, Built array PC Rebooted, Installing Win XP pro Hit F6 install drivers, Format drives, Then before Install It says that :setup cannot copy the file ahcix86.inf.
If I skip it, it will install XP but when I try to boot from the hard drive It starts to load XP but crashes to the blue screen of death
*** Stop: 0x0000007BC ( 0xF78A2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
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Hi!
Looking at some info on Google and Microsoft site, I cannot find the BC error code, only the error code ending with B. It indicates an error with the boot device. It can be caused by several things.
Check that you are using the correct device drivers to install Windows
Also, check the installation CD. It could be that the disk was damaged and that you are missing a crucial file because of that
You can also try installing Windows again and choose to recover the previous installation.
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K9A Platinum RAID - Be careful if you're considering this MB

Unbeknownst to me when I purchased this board to replace my ASUS P4S8X which had a Promise FastTrak 376 SATA RAID controller, when you create a mirrorset on the K9A Platinum you *cannot* preserve data. In my wildest dreams I didn't think that would be that way so I never thought to ask before I bought it. A RAID controller that can't preserve that data on one of its members?? Mind boggling to say the least.
Yes folks and it's true, confirmed by MSI support:
"ATI Raid Controller does not support this feature which is the chipset limitation which you will need to create the raid array and have a fresh install."
That's real nice eh? Completely re-install everything from scratch? <<Removed>> I just did that a week and an a half ago when I lost the MBR after a failed disk and Windoze fixmbr clobbered the partition table. That took 16 hours not including the Windoze install time. Don't want to do that again.
Plan B: Boot a knoppix CD and use dd_rescue to duplicate the disks then create the mirrorset, sync them and cross my fingers.
But that's only the half of it. In playing around with changing the IDE setting from Native IDE to raid, XP blue screens after the Logo with a 7b error. Haven't looked into that yet but I suspect it's because it doesn't have the drivers for the now raid controller. I'll worry about that once I have a sync'd mirrorset created.
When the IDE chipset is set to RAID in the BOIS I tried booting Windoze install disk and adding in the drivers for the now RAID chipset, it fails every time. I think I'm using the right drivers, need to confirm that, ahci8086, but every time it tries to load the driver it tells me that ahci8086.sys is corrupt. I've downloaded it numerous times with the same result. Same thing with the one off the included CD. The ahci8086.sys file is dated 5/18/2006 and I've got the latest which is dated 7/27/2006 which I don't think I tried yet but plan too. If I'm using the wrong driver for when the IDE BOIS is in RAID mode, please let me know but that's what is delivered in the ATI SB600 IDE RAID download so I assume that would be correct. Or maybe I'm supposed to be using one of the Silicon Image driver sets, I couldn't find any information anywhere on what is the correct driver.

I got censored?!?! I don't know where this Forum is headquartered or based, but here in the United States of America we have a thing called "Free Speech" that protects the citizens of our Country from exactly what has just occurred here.
What was censored wasn't really that bad, no profane language or anything, just a reference to the shortsightedness of some engineers. I hope this isn't a Forum where you're only Welcome if you post "MSI is GREAT!" and are not allowed to even whisper anything even slightly negative about them...
As a background I've been in IT support roles for around 25 years. Managed Digital Equipment Corp. VAX's and Alpha's (VMS, ULTIRX, and Tru64 UNIX, started using VAX's in 1978), Sun's Enterprise large servers and assortment of other SPARC boxes (Solaris), IBM 6x0's, and a host of smaller systems running both UNIX and Linux. I cut my teeth on DEC's ULTRIX.
That said, to come across a RAID controller in the year 2006 that will not allow you to preserve the data on one of its members when creating a mirrorset is just unconscionable. So I made reference to the shortsightedness of the engineers by referring that they might be something, and that got censored. I was hoping that might be a wakeup call to these engineers, sort of like a 2x4 upside the head, so they don't make a mistake like this again.
And I learned something else about the ATI SB600 South Bridge RAID controller which once again is just unconscionable. If you take a disk with a filesystem on it, with data, and have the SB600 present it to the OS as a JBOD, it clears the partition table. What!?!? Yes. There is no warning that this is going to occur. Promise's FastTrak controllers *do not* wipe out the partition table. They just present any disk that is not part of a mirrorset to the OS. That seems like a really good idea, ya think? But the SB600 don't do that, it doesn't present the disk to the OS unless it is part of and LD so you have to assign it to one as a JBOD. Poof! Partition table gone!
I just cannot fathom the mindset of the engineers that created the ATI SB600 South Bridge RAID functionality. They just do not seem to be aware of what is expected of a RAID controller in this day and age. They must live their life very sheltered and not have any idea of what other vendors are doing and what the users of their products expect.
Bottom line: The MSI K9A Platinum seems to be a decent MB, but better suited for an full install from scratch then as a replacement MB for an existing, running, seasoned system, if the objective is to use the SB600 RAID controller and preserve existing data on existing disks. I know there's multiple ways to get around this, but that's jumping through hoops that I never had to jump through before.
If anyone is interested I was able to use my existing disk's mirrorset and preserve the OS and data on them.
The steps:
1. Know which is the disk you want to use and duplicate the data from, like Port 1 Master (this is related to SATA drives connected to the MB).
2. Using the FastBuild BIOS Utility create a mirrorset using the two drives. Set Gigabyte Boundary to OFF, set Fast Init to OFF. DO NOT SET Fast Init TO ON, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MBR!
NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! If you're so inclined to use the ATI SATA RAID Utility that you can get from MSI's website to initially create the mirrorset that comes along with WebPAM which you put and use on a bootable floppy, DO NOT "Initialize Array", DO NOT "Synchronize Array", NO, NO, NO!
3. Boot the OS if it will boot but I doubt it BUT DON'T LET IT BOOT INTO THE OS. With the OS only really on one of the disks I don't know what would happened and if the RAID controller uses the "Read Least Busy" algorithm who knows what will happened.
4. Power down the system and unplug the SATA drive that DOES NOT have the OS on it.
5. See if the system will boot. If so great, proceed to step 7.
6. Do what you have to do to get the system to boot with only the one, original drive connected and in the mirrorset. Ignore for now the FastBuild warnings on boot that mirrorset is CRITICAL. In my case I had to use the Windows XP install CD and Repair an existing installation.
7. Install from MSI ATI's WebPAM utility.
8. Power down the system.
9. Connect the SATA drive that is to be the second member of the mirrorset that you disconnected in step 4. Power up the system. When you get FastBuild's warning that your mirrorset is CRITICAL ignore it. DO NOT GO INTO THE FASTBUILD BIOS AND DO A REBUILD THERE. NO! NO! NO! I tried that once on a 500GB mirrorset and after 8 hours with the drive activity light blinking sort of dimly it's progress was still at 0%.
10. Once the OS is running (Windows I presume, XP Pro in my case), start WebPAM. if all went well you will see that WebPAM knew the mirrorset was missing a member, found the FREE drive you reconnected in step 9, and is already in the process of rebuilding the mirrorset. If not, you can manually start the rebuilding process in WebPAM.
Of note, WebPAM only took somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 to 3 hours to rebuild the 500GB mirrorset as opposed to the BIOS rebuild running for 8 hours and accomplishing nothing. (This wasn't a one time anomaly, I had tried it before letting it run a few hours and saw no progress. The 8 hour run was just to be sure.) While the WebPAM rebuild is running you are in Windows and it is running and you could do other things. I didn't though, I left it run until it finished.
There ya go, a rather unorthodox way to make a mirrorset on a MSI K9A Platinum preserving your OS and data and getting around the shortcomings of the ATI SB600 South Bridge RAID implementation.
And I know I could have used Ghost. But that is in hindsight. I would have had to know I needed to do that *before* removing and replacing the MB. But I didn't do that, because I didn't know I was dealing with a brain dead RAID controller.
<Added some more info in the steps.>

K9A Platinum Low Raid 0 Performance?

hi i just build this pc a few days ago and i did some tests on my raid using HD Tach (and on a website called pcpitstop.com)
both of these seem to be reporting my hard drives are doing no more than 80MB/s ... even though i have setup RAID 0 for 3 drives on the utility with the motherboard,
a friend of mine (who uses 4 drives in raid 0 of EXACTLY the same type of hard drive) gets more than 320MB/s on his drives ....
i fail to see how 3 of my drives = 80 MB/s, whilst 4 of his = 320MB/s
I installed the driver and took off the jumper at the back of the drive (to make them SATA II)
I checked the RAID config utility and all the settings seem to be perfect, however the drives seem to be failing to deliver the transfer speed i am looking for ...
My IDE drive is comparable to this setup, which kind of defies the point of me paying so much money for a RAID setup that's giving me the performance of only one of my drives
Windows recognises one drive, and says RAID 0 so i guess the RAID is working it's just not performing properly
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
thanks

Quote from: Hans on 14-June-07, 03:56:02
Hi!
Please read Moan Guide first.
In general: RAID-0 performance is often exaggerated, although your speed seems to be too low. RAID-0 speeds depend on many things: the way the RAID has been set up (block/chunk size, driver, disks, controller, etc). Furthermore, different bench tools will show you different speeds, so don't depend too much on what a tool tells you.
*Edit: don't confuse burst speed with average read/write speeds! The burst speed can exceed the read/write speeds by a factor more than 2!
Some tips you may want to try:
- enable/disable NCQ (Device Manager -> SCSI/RAID-devices);
- try a different block size;
- try a different/newer driver or try the driver that came with the board;
- use the manufacturer's disk tool to have all disks checked for any errors. You may need to connect them as if they are IDE's to make them being recognized properly.
Then this: As far as I'm aware, Windows will not show RAID-0, unless you set up the RAID through Windows disk manager (system tools). If you did setup through Windows disk manager, please setup RAID again using the RAID bios on you board.
hey thanks for the reply, i'll try and give you some more info on what's going on;
firstly some more computer specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 bit dual core 5000+
Graphics: ATI x1950XT-X Crossfire Edition (Single card at the moment)
Mobo: K9A Platinum (havent updated bios yet)
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700W
RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator DHX PC2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
HDD: 3xSeagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - (Took the jumpers off the back to make them SATA II)
The motherboard uses the ATI XPRESS 3200 chipset, which supports up to 4x SATA II Drives, this is what i have used to connect the hard drives to. The Motherboard also offers a RAID utility for 0,1, and 0+1 RAID - i have used raid 0 with block size 128KB (it offered 64 or 128), FastInit was ON, and the other 2 settings i couldnt change, i activated all drives to the array and setup (in the BIOS) for the SATA's to be seen as a RAID configuration.
The latest drivers i used was catalyst 7.5 available from ATI website, the drivers on the CD dont work because i use Vista 64, and the CD says it doesnt support my OS, so i downloaded them.
In response to windows seeing the RAID .... i meant it see's one normal hard drive but the disk comes up as a RAID SCSI device in Propeties -> Hardware, that is the name the RAID utility (straight after POST) gives to the array i think, and so windows recognises it as one.

Raid array flip flops dead/alive on restarts.

This is a weird problem.
My mobo (MSI P7N Diamond 780i SLI / 570i SLI) has an nVidia SATA raid controller providing 6 SATA interfaces.
No overclocking.
These drives are organised thus..
SATA 1 - OCZ Vertex - Windows 7 Home (64bit) Retail version
SATA 2 - Data HD
SATA 3 - Mirror A
SATA 4 - Mirror B
SATA 5 - Mirror A
SATA 6 - Mirror B
If I start my system from power off state the raid array on SATA4/5 may or may not be dead. By dead I mean that it shows up in Windows explorer like this...
(see http://www.gillandroy.com/odds/msi/raid/ - the bad screenshot)
but if I try to use it I get a message saying it needs formatting and I can't get to the data.
If I do a restart it shows up correctly and works just fine.
What is strange is that on succesive restarts it toggles between the good and bad states - without fail!
Starting from power off is random - sometime good, sometimes bad. But a restart, without power off, will always flip the state!
In either state the nVidia BIOS and Mediashield both report arrays as healthy.
Any ideas?
I have Ver 1.51 BIOS, and latest nVidia nForce drivers (11.1.0.33) installed and my motherboard revision is 020.
Roy

Many thanks for your very speedy response!
CPU is Intel Core2 Duo E6850 3.00 Ghz
Memory - 4Gig - Kingston Hyper KHX8500AD2K2/4G
GPU - nVidia GeForce 9800 GT
PSU - ThermalTake Toughpower 850 AP.
System has previously been very stable under windows XP for some time. I don't think it's a power problem.
There are no other cards in the system.
Roy

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My mobo is the 875P Neo-FIS2R (601-6758-040) & OS is XP sp2.
For many years the on board Promise controller supported well the RAID array(0 or 1), using a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB (Model ST3200826AS).
Now, time passed and I want to increase the size of my HDs.
Instead of the 2 x 200Gb, I bought recently one similar Seagate Barracuda of 1000Gb.
But the mobo refused to "see" the new single SATA HD when is connected on promise's SATA ends!
There is not single SATA connection either with one of the old 200GB Seagate; worked only together as RAID!
I checked the hard disks on an other PC and worked perfect. I have tried the BIOS combinations without result
Dear PC gurus, advise please ...
George

Hay man, im just thinking, maybe those HDD are to big for the BIOS to detect them. what i'd recommend, is flashing your BIOS to the latest.
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=544
look at the top bios flash fixes.
if you have never flashed a bios before i'd get some advise from the bios side of the forums. also that my not be the fault. maybe its just a limition of the MB.

Why does raid array not mount?

Set-up: (Equipment was Purchased NEW July 2004)
Xserve: running OSX Server version: 10.3.9
Xserve Raid Box with both arrays using Raid-5:
Array One has Five 250GB ADM (this side works and mounts fine-NO Problems)
Array Two has Four 250GB ADM (this side DOES NOT mount) Our name for this Array/volume is: "RAID2RIGHTSIDE"
We've been using both sides (array 1 & 2) for years with no trouble. Sever locked-up last week and was shut-down, since then Array Two will not mount.
Currently I have all normal green lights (front and back of Xserve Raid Unit)
Disk Utillites 10.4.4: We can see the Array Two from within DU, though the name of the volume is gray/dimmed
Raid-Admin version 1.5.1: shows Array Two IS ON-LINE (all green lights too)
Things I tried-MULTIPLE Times
-Shut-down Xserve & Xserve Raid Unit and disconnect power and Batteries, waited more than 10-mins
-Verified and Repaired Array Two using Disk Utilities version 10.4.4
-Xserve Raid Unit: Removed all cables, Batteries, Power supplies, Fiber Boards, and other board in back
-Xserve Raid Unit: Removed and reset ADMs
-Vacummed dust - all of above
Any ideas why Array Two (RAID2RIGHTSIDE) will not mount? Your suggestions are appreiciated.
Thank you for reading this.
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Are RAID arrays portable between K8N Neo Platinum and K8N Neo3-F?

I think my K8N Neo Platinum might be toast. If that's the case and I upgrade to the K8N Neo3-F, do I get to keep my RAID arrays or do I lose all my data?

I was thinking that since I was going from nForce3-250 to nForce4 I might have trouble porting those RAID arrays over. As such, I'm debating whether or not I should get a pricey K8N Neo to replace the one I have or upgrade to a much cheaper PCI-e K8N Neo3-F (opportunity to get a new vid card, too). Anyway, I have data on the RAID array that I REALLY want to get back but my current mobo is not letting me do that at all for some reason. Not sure if anyone has tried this or not, but I would REALLY like to recover my data without buying an expensive old motherboard. MSI support has given me the usual runaround with "Have you read the manual? Blah blah blah..."

K9a platinum raid setup options?

few quick questions.
for raid 0 what do the following options mean?
gigabyte boundary? default is on. should it be?
next is fast write default is off but i turned it on?
stripe/block size? is smaller better or bigger better?
lastly, can i partition a raid 0 array? or is it a bad idea?
thanx.
p.s. i already set mine up but maybe when i upgrade to vista later i would like to have a better understanding of it.
i set my boundary to on, my fast write to on and my stripe/block size to 64k since it matches the block size for my NTFS. drives are 2 wd 150 gb raptors.

Quote from: msiguy on 26-September-07, 08:31:02
few quick questions.
for raid 0 what do the following options mean?
gigabyte boundary? default is on. should it be?
It means that the raid-size is in GB's only and not parts of them. Just leave it like it is. No reason to mess around with it.
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next is fast write default is off but i turned it on?
I don't know what it does exactly, but I suppose it has to do with the way data is written to the array. I'd leave it at the default value for now.
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stripe/block size? is smaller better or bigger better?
There is no good answer to that. You need to understand first how a striped array works. For example: if you have a raid 0 with two disks, the following situation exists. When the blocksize is set to 64kB and you write a 128kB file, the file is split in two 64kB parts. Those parts are written to both disks at the same time. So, disk A receives one part and disk B receives the other part at the same time. Now, the smaller the blocksize is set, the more files will be split. (You see, a 64kB file cannot be split in smaller pieces, since it is equal to the block size of the RAID-0).
So, the answer is something like this: if you use many small files, setting a small blocksize is better (for example, when you install Windows on the RAID). When you use it for data storage (many large files), larger blocksizes are better. If you are not sure, set it to 64 or Auto.
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lastly, can i partition a raid 0 array? or is it a bad idea?
Yes, you can. No problem.
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thanx.
You're welcome!
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p.s. i already set mine up but maybe when i upgrade to vista later i would like to have a better understanding of it.
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I hope you will wait a bit with that ....
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i set my boundary to on, my fast write to on and my stripe/block size to 64k since it matches the block size for my NTFS. drives are 2 wd 150 gb raptors.
If it is working fine now, just leave it alone.
Note this: if one of your disks gets damaged, or when data is lost from it, you will lose the whole RAID array and all the data on it. So, it is important to backup everything regularly.

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