Compaq ACU & Logical Drive Extension

[Wes Leong]

I have a Proliant ML305 G2 c/w Smart Array 532 Controller. I've added drives to my RAID5 system & want to extend logical Drive 1. Compaq ACU 2.9 says that Windows 2000 is not supported for extension. Ok, so i downloaded Hpcompaq's newer ACU/ACU-XE & tried to install, it stops & says it does not need to be installed. Please help.

[stacy hopkins]

4 prerequisites must be met before extending a logical drive in win2k:
1. 5xxx or higher array controller
2. current acu
3. current system firmware
4 current array firmware

Be sure to meet all of these before attempting win2k logical drive extension.

[stacy hopkins]

forgot to add 5th prerequisite: current array driver

[Arthur Chang]

Hi,
According to my experience,in Win2K OS,you can extend you logical driver by ACU,but you can't extend original Win2K partition,only create a new partition.

Regards

[Terry Hutchings]

The way I see it, the problem is the install routine stops and says it doesn't need to be installed? Which version are you attempting to install? There should be an installation log created during the install. What does this file say?

I would recommend attempting to install this file:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/CP002501-003000/cp002910.exe