Cannot Change Stripe Size on Striped and RAID-5 Volumes

ID: Q223189

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

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 LDM Pro 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, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q113933 Disk Striping and Disk Striping with Parity in Windows NT

Additional query words: ldm veritas

Keywords : kbtool
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb