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Alpha
11-21-2000, 02:15 AM
I am trying to partition and format 2 new 45 Gb (7200 rpm)IBM deckstar drives on a Promise FastTrak IDE 100 Raid card. The card successfully created the Array but only reports the drives as 32 Gb each (I think thats a DOS thing though). When I boot up with a 98 start up disk and attempt to fdisk it I get the Large Hard Disk support page hit Y and then get the message Error Reading Fixed Disk this error also appears when I try to just format the drive and when I conected them individually to the mobo (msi 694-D Pro-A) with an IDE cable. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Paleo Pete
11-22-2000, 06:43 AM
I know little about RAID setups, but it's on my list...

This Article (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/conf/index.htm) in the PC Guide may have some useful info.

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