Hi, I have a server with a 70gig raid 5 array(3 physical drives). Is there any way to add more drives to extend the array to more length. Like adding a 30gig drive to the existing raid array and making a 100gig c: drive or is this impossible. everytime I add a new drive to the controller, compaq sees 2 arrays- arrayA being the 70gig(3 drives) and arrayB being the new drive. It doesn't give me an option of adding the 30gig drive to arrayA. so i have 2 paritions in widows- a 70gig c: volume and a 30 gig E: volume. so, i have 2 questions-\is it not possible on the hardware level to add a new drive to an already existing array?
and, is there any way to extend the c: partition?(this is win2k and i assume its not because the drive was originally a basic disk, but i just want to make sure). i assume if you format any drive as basic and later upgrade to dynamic, extending a non-contigious volume won't work... Ok, i have one more question as well :)- when a raid controller shows 2 arrays, does that mean the drives are on 2 diff scsi channels or is that just a logical distinction.. Thanks alot. sorry for the OT, i know this isn't a compaq list... List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
