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by admin-stuart 1 view

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Server is NT 4.0 SP6a, PDC, boots to RAID 5 SCSI array/adapter, no other drives, running short on space on the array.

For additional space, any known problem or issues adding new IDE drive on IDE1, do BIOS HD detect, then config with Disk Administrator? Set it Primary Master or Slave? Does it matter in this situation? Thanks.

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by bohicam1

As long as the boot.ini file knows where your booting from, I don't think master or slave is an issue here. One thing I would like to make clear though is that it cannot join your raid-5 array as raid-5 only works with scsi, not ide. If you're just going to use it for storage, then there should be no probs.
Good luck!

Mike

by admin-stuart

Don't want to try to add it to existing array, but since you mention it, I guess I could create an NT software array with 3 or 4 IDE drives and it could coexist just fine with the SCSI array?

by lloyd

depending on you raid card some manufacturer's will allow you to add a another drive to the raid. this would be much more sensible in the long term. As for ide drive, no problems as master or slave as the previous guy say's boot ini. is the key as to where it boots from.

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