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Perc 4e/DI controller issues on Server

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by dazeboy79

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I have attempted to add a 4th hard drive to an array. My server is a Dell Poweredge 2800 with 3 140GB Maxtor 10K Atlas SCSI hard drives in a RAID configuration. Not sure if Raid 0 or 1. Well I've got the new hard drive installed and reconstructed the array, and the status of the new hard drive is "online". But I still have the same amount of hard drive space as b4!!?? It does say that 380MB are unallocated for the new disk, does this mean it needs formatting or something?? Please Help!

Thanks,

Chris

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by bbpellet

Have you added the disk to the Raid disk pool? Most like it yes, it is on-line to the array, but as a standalone drive. The parity was streched across the new drive, but the drive is not part of a raid pool yet. The drive needs to be added via the raid utility that comes with your hardware to the existing disk pool, you should gets some form of prompt asking if you want to commit to raid expansion, you'd want to say yes to this. I can't give you specifics as we are a HP shop not a dell, but I would think they both have similar Raid utilites that do the array expansion process.

by dazeboy79

This makes sense, but all I can find is this Array Manager Utilitiy. I have a screen shot if you'd like to see it. There is a check box for Fibre Channel RAID and enclosure Management. Would this have anything to do with it or do I need to add to pool when the pc is booting through bios?? I'm just afraid to mess with this server too much you know.

Thanks for your quick reply!

Chris

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