Extending logical drive on P400i

[Wesley Hutton]

I have a proliant DL360 G5 that I am attempting to expand the logical drive on. The OS is MS Server 2003 SP2. I have done this in the past on older prolaint servers no problem but on this one I can't get the Extend Logical Drive Option to appear. I currently have 140017 MB of unused space showing in the ACU.

How do I get this to happen? I know how to use DISKPART so just need to get the OS to see the unused space.

[marsh_1]

hi,

you usually need the bbwc option installed to allow raid expansion, if you have'nt got that you can't do it.

hth

[Wesley Hutton]

BBWC? Can you speel it out, please?

[TTr]

You did not mention which controller you have but this is from the SA-P400 raid controller. "Addition of the battery backed cache upgrade enables BBWC, RAID 6 with ADG, array expansion, logical drive extension, RAID migration, and stripe size migration".

Most other controllers have the same limitation on their features

BBWC = Battery Backed Write Cache

But you can always create a new LUN and use that as extra storage.

[Wesley Hutton]

All my servers have the battery backup installed. It is a P400i raid controller.