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Originally Posted by blue68f100
I've stayed out of this for the most part. Phoenix32 is right you are missing a few things actually.
I have problem when persons come here asking for help, failed to use the search feature to find the answer. Then says it can't be done when he tries and fail. All it indicates it the user does not have the knowledge and or expertise that he says he has.
The 4200 upgrades the same as my 4500. I did mine 3+ yrs ago when none of this knowledge was available and/or posted on this forum. I upgrade ram as well as HD's capacity.
Now if I recall you upgraded the ram but only 1/2 was be reported, that should have told you the ram is not compatiable with the unit. I suggest you look at the original ram (full specs) and see what you missed. The GOS likes lots of ram when it comes to large capacity HD's.
Now when it comes to HD's most will work if setup properly. Now some work better than other. There is one setting that works best if you only have 1 HD on a controller. Now for some knowledge, the IDE controllers are converted to SATA on the MB. What settings does SATA use? So the use of SATA to IDE to use large capacity drives will work if you can get them to fit in the confined space. Now most all raid5 arrays are sensitive to timing, so I can not say they will work trouble free without long term extended testing.
btw, You missed up on your 1st step.
There are some important steps that MUST be done before you remove the original HD's.
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Um, OK, let's go over what you're saying....
You have a problem with people asking for help that fail to use search.
FYI, I searched everything from just 4200 to 4200 larger, bigger, hard drives, hdd, ugrage, et cetera. I read every single post regarding those terms, rest assured. I will PROVE this to you in a second.
Next, please quote where I stated it couldn't be done. I said don't do it (inferring it was a pain) but I never stated it couldn't be done. Do you know what I don't like? People who put words in other peoples' mouth. All it indicates is that the person is a blowhard.
The RAM isn't even close to being my main problem, or my main focus and has since been remedied.
Now on to your next paragraph. You OPENLY state that
most HDD's will work IF set up properly. Have you worked with my identical HDD's? If not then why are you commenting? This paragraph doesn't help me one bit. I know what occurs between the HDD'S and the mobo.
Now, onto your last tidbit about ME missing the first step:
This is a direct quote from you in the beginning of the thread:
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Sounds like you may be low on ram. GOS needs a min of 512, recommend 1-2gig.
I would suggest not to use re-imaging on new sets. The parmaters are not the same between HD's.
My course of action would be to delete the Raid5 array.
Remover all HD's except drive 1.
Do a quick erase of the removed HD's
Launch the recovery console, and do a "clean install"
Once the clean install has been preformed, reboot.
Then check to see if the HD is identified correctly. If not you may have to update the GOS.
If good hot swap drive 2, wait for OS transfer, check to see if it is identified correctly.
If good, go ahead and hot swap drives 3 and 4.
With all HD showing proper capacity, go ahead and build your raid5
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Delete the RAID 5
OK, so this is partially my fault because I didn't cover every single thing I did. My Mistake. Rest assured I broke the RAID 5.
Now, just for reference, not only did I search and read all I could before I did this, I made a thread about it on 03-24-2009
http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=15310
Why do some of you keep provoking me? I simply came here with a question, and I included logs. It's not like I came here demanding answers and didn't give any helpful info.
I'm starting to suspect that you don't have the answers and instead of simply not posting in the thread, or saying something like, "that sucks", you're posting drivel to cover up the fact that something has surfaced that you can't handle.
Again, I could be wrong, and my apologies if that is the case.