Cannot Change Stripe Size on Striped and RAID-5 Volumes (223189)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
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.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/21/2003
Keywords:kbprb KB223189
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