RAID 0 - New Install

[achitophel]

Hi

Have just splashed out for two 150Gb Raptors and I intend to run them in RAID 0 (Yes, I have checked the rated performance gains and know that they're relatively marginal, but, what the hell, it'll be fun!). The Mobo is a Asus P5W DH.

What I'm really struggling with is to find a halfway complete guide to setting up a RAID logical drive. The idea is that it'll be my main OS partition, so am wondering how I go about installing the RAID controller drivers etc etc.

Does anyone know of a good basic installation guide which will set me on the right path?

Have seen references to people saying a floppy is needed - if poss, would prefer to burn the files to a CD and run them from there to avoid having to cannibalise a floppy from another machine.

All help gratefully received

 

[achitophel]

Thanks a million for that - that was exactly what I was looking for

One last question, is it possible to swap out the Win XP installation disk for another CD, assuming I burn the drivers on that disk. I'd like to avoid hooking up a floppy to the new PC if at all possible.

Cheers again for the help

 

[achitophel]

Oh bugger That's some more dismantling to do then.

Well thanks a million for all of that anyway.

P.S. for mods - I do think it might be worht stickying the main post here as this isn't info I was able to find easily either on the forum or elsewhere (oddly enough, lots of references to NVidia chipset mobo RAID install guides, but little else)

 

[achitophel]

By way of update, my Asus mobo (P5W DH Deluxe) seemed to have the RAID 0 drivers pre-installed (via BIOS?), since when I used the designated RAID SATA ports and set the jumper for RAID 0, the BIOS then saw the drives as a single logical partition before I began the Win XP install.