Cannot Change Stripe Size on Striped and RAID-5 Volumes

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This article was previously published under Q223189

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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.

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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.

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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 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/113933/EN-US/ ) 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.

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