storage enclosure question

[Nathan Stipe]

I have a fist generation ml350 with the 4 hot swappable drive cage. Is there any way too add hard drives the the channel on my raid card that uses this drive cage or am I limited too just using the 4 drives in this cage on the channel?

[Janine Bertolo]

Hi Nathan;

Unfortunately, you are limited to the number of drives in the hot-plug drive cage on the server.

You would have to use an external storage system on another array controller to add space in this particular configuration.

Hope that helps,

Janine

[Nathan Stipe]

Janine,

Thats what I was afraid of. How about this. My raid controller is a 532 which has one internal and one external channel.

Is it possible too run a cable from the external connector back inside the server too 2 other hard drives that I could put in two free media bays?

[Christian Schwartz-Søre]

If you can find a cable with the proper connetions you can do it, but I doubt very much if it's a supported solution :-) not likely

christian