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Smart array 642 disk upgrade 3 part question

David_778 — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:31:38 GMT

I have added 3 new disks to my currant raid 5 drive array.
My currant drive array is 3 x 36GB disks.
I have added 3 x 36GB disks
My first 3 drives are logical disk 0
My 3 new disks are logical disk 1
Q1
My question is when the rebuild has finished running will they all be in 1 raid 5 set
or
will the be in two raid sets
Q2
The rebuild has run for 36 hours and is only on 85% on logical disk 0
If the answer to q1 is two sets can I delete logical drive 1 and add to logical disk 0. If one set please ignore Q2.
Q3
Lastly when will server 2000 see drive/space

Re: Smart array 642 disk upgrade 3 part question

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:46:37 GMT

Hi,

the process is well described here:
http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00257511/c00257511.pdf

greetings,

Michael

Re: Smart array 642 disk upgrade 3 part question

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:50:27 GMT

Hi,

could you solve your problem?

greetings,

Michael

Re: Smart array 642 disk upgrade 3 part question

David_778 — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:18:15 GMT

Hi thanks i kind of figured it out but im still not shure as i have 2 logical drives but is it 1 raid 5 drive across all six drives or is it two raid 5 drives

Re: Smart array 642 disk upgrade 3 part question

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:35:36 GMT

Hi,

did you do the capacity expansion as described in the doc?
If so you have one raid 5 drive.
You can have two logical drives on one raid 5 drive.

hth,

Michael