Microsoft KB Archive/223189

= Cannot Change Stripe Size on Striped and RAID-5 Volumes =

Article ID: 223189

Article Last Modified on 2/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q223189



SYMPTOMS
The Windows 2000 Disk Management tool does not provide the ability to change the stripe size on striped (RAID-0) and RAID-5 volumes.



RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, use a third-party utility, such as the Veritas Volume Manager for Windows 2000 add-on utility, to change the stripe size on striped and RAID-5 volumes.



MORE INFORMATION
Windows 2000 striped and RAID-5 volumes write to the disk in 64-kilobyte (KB) stripes (also known as blocks).

For additional information about disk striping, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

113933 Disk Striping and Disk Striping with Parity in Windows NT

NOTE: The use of software fault-tolerant drives on the shared storage subsystem of a cluster server is unsupported. Do not use software-based spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, striped volumes, or RAID-5 volumes on the shared storage of a cluster server.

Additional query words: ldm veritas

Keywords: kbprb KB223189

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