Tom, Your using a 5300 controller? Sounds like the issue that your having is that the drive your using is connected to the wrong channel of the array.
The 5300 is either a 2 or 4 channel controller. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/smartarray5300/index.htmlMake sure your on the latest version of Firmware which is 3.54b. Compaq gave lifetime technical support for servers and three year hardware replacement warranty. I would also call HP their support can walk you through your issue and it's a free call 800-474-6836. Regards, Jose Medeiros ------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Compaq raid controllers(OT) I'm using a compaq 5300. Everytime I add a drive, it goes to array B and i can't seem to find anyway to move it to arrray A. also, i had a logical drive on an extended partition in windows 2k. it was a basic disk and i upgraded to dynamic and i'm not allowed to extend it to another physical drive(array B). Is this by design or am I missing something? Does a drive have to be originally formatted as dynamic to achieve this? thanks for all your help Medeiros, Jose wrote: > Hi Tom, > > What model controller do you have? I expanded a our raid 5 array on a > Compaq Proliant 1500 using a Smart 2DH raid controller with NT 3.51 > back in 1998 when I supported the servers at LSI Logic and it worked > with out having to recreate the array. Glenn is right that lower end > Proliant controllers did not support this option. > > As for Expanding the C: Partition Power Quest has a product called > Server Magic ( They are now owned by Symantec and changed the name to > Volume Manager ). > > If your only expanding the data partition's you can do so with > Dynamic Volumes in 2000 / 2003 server and then add the additional > space once you have added it to the drive array in the controller > raid utility. > > Regards, > > Jose Medeiros > MCP+I, MCSE, NT4 MCT > http://www.ntea.net > http://www.sfntug.org > > > ------------------------------------------ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glenn Corbett > Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Compaq raid controllers(OT) > > > Tom, > > First Question. Some of the older Compaq RAID Controllers didn't > allow > raid expansion, but all of the new models (52xx, 5i, 64xx, 6i) should > allow this. Check the firmware levels on the card, and also check the > version of the PSP (ProLiant Support Pack) your running on the server. > From within Windows, you should be able to expand the array no > problems. There will be performance hit while it does it (since its > shuffling data around), but the machine should be reasonably happy. > > Second Question. You *might* be able to extended the C: partition, > but > the requirements outlined in the Microsoft Support Article: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325590, are > fairly stringent: > > - For Basic volumes, the unallocated space for the extension must be > the > next contiguous space on the same disk (this wouldnt be do-able, > unless > you deleted the second partition before attempting the resize). > - Only the extension of data volumes is supported. System or boot > volumes may be blocked from being extended. (well, seeing as your > trying > to extend the C: drive, this could be a problem) > > Last Question, A Single Channel (scsi bus) within a controller can > have > any number of arrays consisting anywhere from a single drive, up to a > full bus. Its purely a logical distinction. > > Glenn > > Kern, Tom wrote: > >> 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/ >> >> >> >> > > 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/ > > 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/ 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/ 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/
