Hi Tom
The RAID information is stored on the card and on the drives. There is
usually a command to load config from drives with the RAID management
software.
Most RAID cards I have seen have the option to add another drive to the
array, and extend the array. None of them have the option to contract an
array. This is also in the RAID management program. With DELL, IBM, and
Compaq you can boot directly into this off the RAID Server CD. Extending
the logical drive partition will depend on the drive configuration - a
dynamic drive should let you extend it or create a volume set - I have done
it but do not remember the steps involved. It was intuitive in the disk
management applet in Computer Management tho.
Regards;
James R. Day
Active Directory Core Team
Office of the Chief Information Officer
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This is a hardware question that has nothing to do with AD. be warned.
Many apologies in advance.
i'm not really a hardware guy.
Still, I can't believe I don't know this, but if anyone can help me, that
would be great.
If i have a hardware raid 5 array and swap out the raid controller with a
new one, what happens to the data on the disks?
Is everything lost or can the new controller just do raid 5 for the
existing data?
also, as a final question, can I add a extra drive to extend the current
raid partition? meaning, if a have a 70gig hardware raid array(not counting
the parity data), can i just add another 35gig drive to make Windows see a
105gig paratition now or do I have to create an extended paration?
thanks. I know this is way OT. sorry
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