Proliant ML350, Dynamic Disc

[Joe El]

Hello All,

I recently installed windows 2003 server on my Proliant ML350 G2, and now I want to mirror my disk drive with my OS by software (of course, my server does not support RAID).

However, in order to do this I must convert the drive from basic to dynamic and since this is the drive which has the Compaq EISA based disk, I figured it might damage it.

Am I right, and if so is there any other solution to mirror my drive without buying a RAID controller?

Joel

[sanesh vig]

Hi Joel,

How do you know that the HDD is EISA based Disk.

Regards

[sanesh vig]

As far as i know EISA was there till G1 servers only

[Joe El]

Sanesh,

Thanks for the quick response,

I believe that this server has EISA drive simply because Windows disk management declares that a 39 Mbs partition on my HD is EISA configured

[sanesh vig]

Thanks for the update !

Please try the steps mentioned in the aritcle

http://www.netadmintools.com/art439.html

[Joe El]

This article looks great, thank you very much. Are you sure converting the disk to dynamic wont affect the ability to load from the compaq EISA partition?

[sanesh vig]

I am not sure about the EISA technolgy as i have personally not worked on these kind of HDDs.

However on any other HDD , yes i am sure it would work.

I would advise to take a Valid data back up before you perform any steps.

Regards

[Víctor Cespón]

That small 40 or 50 MB partition listed as "EISA" is created by manufacturers (like Dell and HP) to store system and diagnostic utilities.