topic Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:54:13 GMT

Hi,

I reccently bought a HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server. Beside that i bought two SAS 3,5 harddisks both of 450 GB.

I wan't to use them as regular harddrives, so i have to harddrives, ect. C: and D:, and both on 450 GB.

But when I try to configure them, using HP Array Configuration Utiliy, I can only choose to use RAID 1+0 and RAID 0.

So in Windows Server 2003 I can only see one drive.

Can anyone help me please ;)

Thank you.

Best regards,

Rasmus

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Dmitry_75 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:23:39 GMT

Hi Rasmus!

In ACU or ORCA (F8) make 2 arrays with 1 HDD, not 1 array with 2 HDD.

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:29:07 GMT

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I have tried to make two SAS array, with one logical drive in each. Cause I thought that would do it. (when I do this i still have to choose RAID 0).

But I can still only see one drive in windows, this way. Do I need to do anything else?

/Rasmus

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Dmitry_75 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:40:32 GMT

If you have 2 arrays in ACU, then you must see 2 hard drives in disk management. May be one of them not initialized?

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:56:15 GMT

If you have 2 arrays in ACU, then you must see 2 hard drives in disk management. May be one of them not initialized?

Well i do have 2 arrays. I will take some pictures and upload, so you can see my configuration.

When you say disk management, do you then mean Explorer, Device Manager or what?

/Rasmus

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:21:17 GMT

Here is my ACU Configuration. See attached picture.

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:26:13 GMT

Here is my device manager. See attached picture.

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:27:11 GMT

Here is my explorer. See attached picture.

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:34:41 GMT

Hi,

It sounds like you haven't created a file system on the second logical drive...

Right click My Computer, and go to Manage.

Then select Disk Management under Storage.

You should see the second drive there that you can partition up and format etc.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:38:57 GMT

Hi Rob,

Okay that's what Dmitry meant with Disk Management.

I'll try that and reply if it's a success or not ;)

Thanks.

Rasmus

Re: How to setup two harddisks without RAID

Rasmus Tvenstrup — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:53:51 GMT

Hi Rob,

It worked! ;)

So many thanks for you help. I have submitted points for you.

Dmitry, post a reply and i will submit point for you too.. Thanks for you help.

Best regards,

Rasmus