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
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
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