I've tired low level formatting two of the disks using
the Qlogic card bios facility which suceeded with no error messages.
I then came back into windows and still couldn't do
anything with the disks.
I've tried creating a partition using both diskpart and
gdisk32 but still no joy.
Gdisk32 creates a partition but still windows wants to
initialize the disks but can't.
diskpart sits there using cpu cycles, so far for 3
hours, and doesn't seem to be doing very much.
Any ideas how I can get these drives in a usuable
state?
You'll probably have to low-level format the drives to use
512 byte blocks. I'm guessing Windows isn't
thrilled with the 520-byte blocks that NTAP
uses.
I've got a couple of NetApp DS14 fibre disk shelves
from our "old" filers that I'd like to reuse. I attached one of the shelves to a
server using a Qlogic 2200 card and although Windows detected the drives
correctly I couldn't partition them or anything - no specific error message just
saying that it couldn't.
What I'm wondering is:
Should I use the Qlogic card facility to low level
format them? Will that make them usable in Windows?
Any suggestions on how I can implement RAID with
these disks other than Windows software RAID?
Regards,
Iain