Re: Help Please RAID Five

rabbit wrote:

Thanks for the input, it was working fine on fresh xp pro installation it just dissapeared after service packs 1. and the answer to your question is a RAID 5 but only have 2 20gb hard drives SCSI (0,1) and I don't think drives or one of the drive died it has to be something with settings or mounting drives.

Tnx any way.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:


rabbit wrote:

Does any one knows how to restore lost storage from RAID 5 (with 2
Hard drives) explain when I installed Windows XP Pro the RAID was
working fine hard drive storage was visible and partioned all of a
sudden RAID drive dissappear and
no longer Accessible and do not know how to restore it. I am not sure
if happened after started installing service packs 1 & 2. another
things that I have noticed is that IRQ used when first installed was
15 now is 5 when ADAPTED SCSI CARD boots. used to show IRQ 15 now is
IRQ have no idea what's going on.

TIA

RAID 5 needs a minumum of 3 drives. Did one of the drives quit working or did you setup a different RAID configuration with 2 drives? With 2 drives you could use RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 1+0 or jbod.

Kerry





Kerry is correct. You do not and can not have a RAID 5 array with only two drives, it is impossible.

Steve N.
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