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mchattech · 05-01-2006, 11:12 PM

Yeah, I think someone was having a similar issue with a 4400..stupid hard drives. With this though, the drives show up as having 460 some gigs, but within the RAID set only the original amount of space is available. And that missing space doesn't show up anywhere.

I've got full backups of everything, and the original hard drives (250s). I just got the upgrade (don't ask) so that wasn't done before I started syncing the new drives. I'm not sure if that would have helped the situation at all; it seems like they've got those drives locked up pretty good, forcing you to get their upgrades. Nothing like paying $500+ for one FRU

I've been scratching my head try to figure out how do get around this, and the best I can figure is that there's something within the OS limiting/restricting hard drive size. I think I might try running a fresh install (reading up about on adaptec's site) with the new drives in place. Has anyone tried this on a 4200, 4500, 4400, 14000, 15000 or 18000?

05-01-2006, 11:12 PM	#17
mchattech Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Hampton, NY Posts: 12	Re: Upgrading Snap 4500 Yeah, I think someone was having a similar issue with a 4400..stupid hard drives. With this though, the drives show up as having 460 some gigs, but within the RAID set only the original amount of space is available. And that missing space doesn't show up anywhere. I've got full backups of everything, and the original hard drives (250s). I just got the upgrade (don't ask) so that wasn't done before I started syncing the new drives. I'm not sure if that would have helped the situation at all; it seems like they've got those drives locked up pretty good, forcing you to get their upgrades. Nothing like paying $500+ for one FRU I've been scratching my head try to figure out how do get around this, and the best I can figure is that there's something within the OS limiting/restricting hard drive size. I think I might try running a fresh install (reading up about on adaptec's site) with the new drives in place. Has anyone tried this on a 4200, 4500, 4400, 14000, 15000 or 18000?