ok so i have an old power mac G4 with 2 80GB drives and want to setup a raid. I need to know if I can raid two drives with mac os x 10.3.9 alredy installed. The only thing is that I cant reinstall 10.3.9 because I do not have the install disc for that version of os x, but on the other hand i do have the install disc for 10.1.3. can it be done with this version of os x. can you tell me what i have to do to get it done, because i want to use the old box for a network drive for extra storage to my windows PC. thanks for any help you can give in advance. Navskin Spec of the mac are G4 450mhz 512mb SDRAM 128mb ATI Rage GFX 2 x 80GB drives DVD-Rom ZIP Drive
ok varnull, i think you might of missunderstud what i am trying to do. what i want to do is make 2 drives in to 1 big drive. So let do the maths 80+80=160-5=155 so the 5 gig for the os and 155 gig as a network drive. thanks for the reply navskin
@navskin No, you misstated what you want to do. You might have specified RAID 0 in order that people would properly understand what you were trying to do. RAID 0 = striped data (1 logical drive that is 2 x the smallest physical drive) Not a "True" RAID because it is NOT fault-tolerant RAID 1 = mirrored data (1 logical drive that is 1 x the smallest physical drive) is fault tolerant RAID 0+1 striped and mirrored (requires 4 drives) I don't believe that you can create a RAID 0 after the fact. However, it appears that you can do RAID with 10.1.3 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2559 I hope that this helps.
