My first thought is the drives are formatted with ECC, 520 byte sectors instead of the default 512 bytes non-ECC. This might confuse OSes not expecting it. It takes a low level drive format to change this. I know solaris is more than happy to prompt you to do this with the 'format' command, but I am not familiar with methods in other operating sysems.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:50:02PM -0000, Iain Barnetson wrote:
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