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Ian Planchon November 25th, 2008 08:38 AM

raid5
 
I just went through 30 hours of setup on a raid5 system, the initialization process is over, but now the drives dont show up on the system. even under disk management they arent listed.....any ideas on how to "enable" the raid5? I would really like to get this done so I can start editing!

Jeff Harper November 25th, 2008 09:54 AM

If the raid was setup in the bios, then all you should need to do is make sure the controller drivers are installed within the os. If that is not working, then get a floppy disc utility and format the drives from MSDOS just to make sure.

If you are running 64 bit you might need to download the floppy software on a 32 bit machine to make the floppy. Try seagate or download Western Digital software utility.

Ian Planchon November 25th, 2008 10:10 AM

thanks. my brother in law is the one who setup the raid, and I am pretty sure he set it up in the bios. I will tripple check that though.

Ian Planchon November 25th, 2008 10:24 AM

ok, it is setup in the bios. and the drivers are all there.....it shows up in device manager, but under "volumes" all the info is blank.....

I really hope I dont need to re-do the raid, 30 hours was a long wait...

Adam Gold November 25th, 2008 12:47 PM

You not only need to set up the RAID array, but also set up volumes on that array. In Disk Management you should be able to right-click on the array and set up the volumes that way.

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. In the lower panel your array should be listed. If it's different from your system drive it could be Disk 1. Right-click in the grey area and it should give you options to create a volume.

Unless you've already done this....

Jeff Harper November 25th, 2008 06:13 PM

I still think he needs to re-format from a floppy. That has worked for me more than once. Redoing the Raid will not help. I can't imagine why setting up raid would take more then a few minutes....that is a mystery to me.

Ian Planchon November 25th, 2008 07:11 PM

ok, the raid was too large I guess. now they are two seperate drives and all works fine.

Adam Gold November 25th, 2008 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Harper (Post 969024)
I can't imagine why setting up raid would take more then a few minutes....that is a mystery to me.

I have a 7 x 1TB array that takes about 22 hours to initialize or rebuild in RAID3 or 5. Other RAID levels might take different amounts of time due to the type of parity, redundancy, etc.

Jeff Harper November 26th, 2008 06:09 PM

Sorry, my bad. I use raid 0, didn't realize the mess involved running Raid 5. As a one man shop I could never imagine tying up my computer that long. 30 hours sounds like a bad dream.

I have a backup drive for every drive I own, but I just copy manually everthing I do as I go.


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