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Question about RAID 5
LockedOk, so I *had* a RAID 5 setup in my computer, using 3 Seagate Barracuda 1TB drives, and everything worked perfectly fine. I decided that I wanted to up the capacity of my raid, so I decided to add 2 more 1TB drives to that (both also barracuda’s). I got the ports on my mobo configured to RAID, and then I deleted the RAID and recreated it with all 5 drives included, and it showed up in the Nvidia Mediashield RAID controller as a whole RAID (capacity of 3.63TB). I proceeded to boot into WinXP, and the drive won’t show up in the Disk Management. I look under Device Manager and I can see the RAID there, but if I try to populate it, it gives no disk size and an unknown disk type.
I’ve tried bringing it back down to the original 3 drives, and it works fine again, and I’ve tried using varying combinations of just 4 drives to no avail.
Is there some sort of strange limitation by WinXP on the capacity of a RAID, or is there likely some other setting I need to change to get it to support this high of a capacity?