bleeckerx Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Hey guys, I have leo on my raid 0 setup which consists of 2 160GB WDs, but I can't get access to the full 300+Gigs. In Disc Utility the entire raid drive appears as the full 300+, but the actual drive image is only 160ish. Obviously the drives are mirrored here...right? When I try to expand the partition I get the Boot Map Partition Too Small error (not exactly correct I know, on vista right now trying things..) I've loaded the raid controller drivers onto vista and booted off a different HD, but I can't find the raid drives in windows - I CAN with acronis - but haven't been able to make any progress through that program? ANY thoughts would be awesome.. thanks guys! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 this mistake could appear if you have too big files on the disk (I guess more than 3-4gb) I had a backup.dmg on the disk - after I deleted it, it worked without any problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-811190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafix Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I guess you installed the right driver and the raid utility by siliconimage. if not, try this: http://www.siliconimage.com/support/suppor...id=2&osid=3 use the driver for raid SATARAID5. my raid 0 is bootable and the partitions are resizeable. good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-811402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleeckerx Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 Raf - that is the driver I used, pulled the link off this site. Thanks tho! Peach - That's actually a really good idea, but I don't have any large items like that... I pretty much had this problem from the moment I first booted up the OS (I did use the CCC method to ghost the OS over from another drive.. think that's part of the problem?) Oh and the actual error is: "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small. But yeah, still no luck. : ( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-811738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafix Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I did it in this order: 1: Installed OS X to a single HD, then applied the driver for the raid-card an created the raid with raid utility by siliconimage. 2: Cloned this system to the raid by superduper, ccc or whatever you want, reapplied EFI (Chameleon is easy to use) and booted files bigger than 4 GB are no problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-812806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 ok ..........just to give you a chance to compare - the way I did it: 1. Installed OS X to a single HD, then applied the driver for the raid-card and created the raid in the bios of my raid-card. 2. cloned the system to the raid with copycatx (for that you need another small os x install). no efi patching or fdisk needed after. copycatx clones it 1:1 3.resized with volumeworks - worked perfect (should be the same with disk utility) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-813174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleeckerx Posted July 10, 2008 Author Share Posted July 10, 2008 Thanks again for the responses guys. I used your method exactly Peach. There must have been some small detail I did differently. But I didn't try volumeworks, I'm gonna try to find that and give it a shot. Thanks again guys! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-813913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stella123 Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 A RAID distributes data across several physical disks which look to the operating system and the user like a single disk. Several different arrangements are possible. We assume here that all the disks are of the same capacity, as is usual. RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across several disks in a way which gives improved speed and full capacity, but all data on all disks will be lost if any one disk fails. You can turn help from this website when you come across some partition problems:http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/EASEUS-Partition-Manager.shtml Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114535-cant-resize-raid-partion/#findComment-886740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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