Well, you can call me an idiot. Despite KNOWING that XP cannot see a GPT volume my testbed was an XP box. After an ah-ha moment when my head dropped out from where it been lodged I created a small RAID 1 virtual drive, established it as a DiskBridge and connected right up with the MS initiator. The ...

Hello Valery, OK. I will make the switch to the MS initiator tomorrow and use DiskBridge. I started with DiskBridge but changed to SPTI when I could not get it to work. Disk Manager on the client. OK. Now, the 5 TB volume on the RAID box is already initialized and formatted as GPT/NTFS through the D...

I have installed a system as follows: JBOD SAS/SATA box attached to an LSI 8888ELP controller. 5 TB RAID 5 using GPT/NTFS on Server 2003 R2 SP2. Starwind installed Ver. 3.5.4 Build 20080527 Added the MegaRAID Device as an SPTI:Disk (Also tried DiskBridge) Device: \\.\PhysicalDrive1 ID: LSI MegaRAID ...