Adding drives on Raid 5

[Luis Barros]

Its possible to add 2 more drives on a raid 5 where I have already 3 drives?
I guess just pluging those drives will not do the trick.

[Mark Cloutier]

It's easy but not that easy.
Shut down the Server and pop in your 2 new drives. Then bootup and run the Array Configuration Utility. This all depends on what type of server you have.
What server?
What array controller?
What OS?
Do you want your RAID 5 to increase in size or would you like to create another logical drive?

Mark

[Luis Barros]

Its a Proliant ML370
Running win 2k server
I want to increase my RAID 5 size.
Version 1.58 -- the controller is the one that comes with it.




What array controller?

[Mark Cloutier]

Hi Luis,
At POST it should say "initializing....."
X logicals drives found.
This is the array controller. Are you using the 5i or another type of array controller.

Mark