Hp Netserver LH4

[ionut_lascu]

Hi. I have a problem with Hp Netserver LH4 with my free space.
Sorry for my poor english.
I have 5 hard disks :
- Chanell I (4 hard disks Atlas 10K Quantum 8758M) and Chanell II(1 hdd IBM 4356M).
I want to add more hdds in my server but how do i see what RAID i have ?
Thanks in advance.

[Sean T. Craig]

Hi Ionut,

We'll need some more information. Let's start with the Operating System. Is it Windows based? If so, you can use NetRAID Assistant unless your drives are connected to a NetRAID-4M or a standard SCSI Controller. You can download it from this link:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=51915&prodNameId=51917&swEnvOID=226&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ns-12645-1

Independant of the operating system, you can use the NetRAID Express Tools utility by pressing M at startup when it banners the firmware for it. You should see a message about logical drives found and logical drives handled by BIOS.
From there, (Management Menu) choose Objects-->Physical Drive. Record the SCSI ID of each drive and how it is participating in the array (i.e. ID0 - A0-0; ID1 - A0-1 etc.) Press on each drive and record the capacity and check if there are any errors reported. You will need to arrow down in order to see the drive on ID8

Now escape back to Objects and choose Logical Drive. It will bring up a list. Choose Properties for each one and record the LD Properties.

Lastly, from Windows (if that's what you're running) go into Disk Management (or Disk Administrator in NT4) and tell us how your partitions are set up, i.e.:
Disk 0 - C: - 4356MB - 68% free
Disk 1 - D: - 26274MB - 15% free

When you have this information, post your configuration and we'll let you know your options and how to go about setting it up.

Good luck,

Sean T. Craig Sr. C.E.T., M.C.P.