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тАО10-02-2003 05:19 AM
тАО10-02-2003 05:19 AM
RAID 5 as single large disk/volume
Booted the SmartStart CD. Setup the RAID-5 array. Selected the OS type as Win2K. The array format type as NTFS. Selected the 300GB array for the OS. Continued to the OS Install.
Booted the Win2K CD. Followed the Win2K install prompts.
Once the OS was installed, looking that the Disk Manager, "C:" shows as a 4GB volume within the 300GB array. The array shows as if it uses the full 300GB. The "C:" volume can not be extended or expanded.
To make sure we are selecting NTFS and the RAID configuration is correct, we have erased and stepped throught the install process 2 additional times.
Any help/suggestions as to what we are doing wrong would be appreciated.
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тАО10-02-2003 05:48 AM
тАО10-02-2003 05:48 AM
Re: RAID 5 as single large disk/volume
PS: If you use an unattended setup procedure, specifying ExtendOEMPartition=1 in the [unattended] section will make the C: drive fill your entire logical drive.
Jeff
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тАО10-02-2003 06:55 AM
тАО10-02-2003 06:55 AM
Re: RAID 5 as single large disk/volume
Whatever is happening, the 4gig volume that is created acts like a FAT partition instead of NTFS. The remainder of the 300gig drive is not available for use. If the OS was just using this 4gig volume as a partition, I should be able to go into Disk Manager and create another partition on the remaining unused part of the logical volume.
Though the drive shows as 300 gig in disk manager and the "C:" volume is only 4 gig in size, the unused portion of the 300gig drive is not available to partition. In our case, the entire array shows as 300gig in use. Right-clicking on "C:" volume shows the 4gig size. To make sure that it was not a display problem, we even tried to copy some files over the network to see when we would run out of room. And, it filled the disk at 4gig.
I've installed Win2K Server many times on different servers and drive configurations. But, this is the largest single volume I have ever tried. It really seems like some problem with SmartStart and its interface to the RAID controller versus the data it passes to Win2K CD.
Couple of things we are going to try: Create a smaller 20-30gig partition, install the OS and see what happens. Try a manual install without SmartStart assisted install.
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тАО10-02-2003 07:18 AM
тАО10-02-2003 07:18 AM
Re: RAID 5 as single large disk/volume
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тАО10-02-2003 07:54 AM
тАО10-02-2003 07:54 AM
Re: RAID 5 as single large disk/volume
Used SmartStart but only created a 30gig partition on the 300GB array. Completed the OS install. Used Server Magic (by PowerQuest I believe.) to expand the 30gig partition to use the whole volume.
Everything seems to be working OK. Just finished the Service Packs and Security Patches from Microsoft. Server is running fine, on the Network, and multiple reboots have worked.
I'll be moved tons of data to the array shortly. If I run into any weird problems, I'll post a heads up.