[bannerdog]

Hello,

I am new to RAID. I am about to setup two drives to be used as a RAID 0 volume.

[Incidently, my motherboard uses the Intel ICH9R southbridge, although this is probably irrelevant.]

My question is this: How will the RAID volume appear to Windows XP? As a physical drive?


The bottom line is, if I want multiple logical drives on my system, do I create a single RAID volume (which appears as a physical drive to the OS), and create partitions and logical drives on the RAID volume, or do I create a seperate RAID volume (in the BIOS) for each logical drive that I want?

Thanks!

 

[bannerdog]

I'm going to assume that the RAID volume may be treated by the OS as a single hard drive. That's the most straight forward - and transparent - approach (for the RAID driver/south bridge chipset to present an API allowing a RAID volume to be manipulated as a single drive), and seems almost certainly the one taken.

In the unlikely event that I'm wrong, I'll find out right away.