Re: [H] Partition Type for RAID

2005-08-28 Thread Ben Ruset
Make it an ext3 (Linux) filesystem and then install the ext3 driver for Windows. http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html Brian Weeden wrote: I am setting up a RAID 5 array of 4 250GB drives so total size will be around 700GB. I was originally goind to use NTFS since it is a Win XP system but

Re: [H] Partition Type for RAID

2005-08-28 Thread Brian Weeden
Do you have them setup as multiple primary partitions or logical paritions? Does it matter? Right now I have a 20GB boot drive and 4 250GB drives in a RAID 5 array. I don't have any data on it yet so I have the flexibility to configure it however I want but once I drop the 300GB or so I have on

Re: [H] Partition Type for RAID

2005-08-28 Thread Harry McGregor
Boot up knoppix run cfdisk /dev/sda (presume a 3ware or lsi raid card) Set partition type to 0c (Win9x LBA) Write and quit cfdisk mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 this will make a fat32 file system on the large drive. reboot system, and windows can read it. Harry On Sun,