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**lindberg** · 25 January 2001, 06:33

I have the ABIT HTO ROD DMA/100 RAID controller card, and I was about to make a setup similiar to yours.
I created RAID0 (array) at my similiar 20GB IBM HDD's and Windows found one 40GB HDD, just as it's supposed to work. The problem started when I tried to format the harddisk (to FAT32), Partition magic froze at 1 or 2% and fdisk froze at 8%.

How should I set up the Array? tried with 32k blocksize and 4k. Nothing worked. Is it the fat32 that isn't accepted or that I format from windows, do I have the wrong block size, or is it that I have the windows HDD attached as slave to the controller card (1st master->20GB IBM slave->10GB western, 2nd master->20GB IBM)

I made the array at the IBM drives..

I'd really like to run RAID0 since I've got two similiar HDD's...

Any suggestions?

**Gurm** · 25 January 2001, 07:16

Sorry, should have mentioned this sooner.

You don't actually have to disable the SCSI BIOS - often just setting it to initialize second is enough to do the trick. However, you DO have to remember not to try to boot with it.

For example, in my machine...

I have Promise RAID. If I allow the 29160 (Adaptec) to initialize first, the RAID gets very unhappy (works but won't boot). If I set the 29160 to initialize second however, I'm fine - UNLESS I want to boot from it. If I put in a boot CD without switching the order, the machine locks up.

I hate it when you have multiple devices that demand the same BIOS space. Grr...

I apologize for not mentioning this in the other topic.

- Gurm

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**SCompRacer** · 25 January 2001, 17:51

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">You don't actually have to disable the SCSI BIOS - often just setting it to initialize second is enough to do the trick. However, you DO have to remember not to try to boot with it.</font>

Howdy Gurm,

How do you get the SCSI adapter to initialize second? Unable to find an option in the 2940U2W's 2.57.2 BIOS to do it, less I am missing it. Or is it a choice in the 29160 BIOS only?

I am not concerned about booting from SCSI anymore as ATA100 IDE has surpassed my old SCSI drives performance and the Ultra160 stuff cost's more than I want to spend. Kept one SCSI drive for storage, and that may go too...but the CD ROM drives stay.

lindberg,

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">I have the ABIT HTO ROD DMA/100 RAID controller card, and I was about to make a setup similiar to yours.
I created RAID0 (array) at my similiar 20GB IBM HDD's and Windows found one 40GB HDD, just as it's supposed to work. The problem started when I tried to format the harddisk (to FAT32), Partition magic froze at 1 or 2% and fdisk froze at 8%.</font>

I set up my RAID with a 16K block size and formatted with the C: /z:32 command and it went smoothly. Never tried Partition magic on the RAID disks yet, and I did all the fdisk from a Win98 boot disk.

RAID is still new to me do try the forums here http://www.icrontic.com/
for answers if your not successful here.

[This message has been edited by SCompRacer (edited 26 January 2001).]

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