25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
4:50 p.m.
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