Adding Physical Drives - Compaq CL380 - ProLiant - 256 MB RAM Software User's Manual

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Adding Physical Drives

The system's CR3500 RAID Controllers must recognize the physical drives in
the shared storage area before you can create logical drives from them. The
controller will recognize all physical drives at start up. To add physical drives
to your configuration after the controller has started, follow these steps:
IMPORTANT: Before adding physical drives that have previously been used by another
ProLiant CL380, it is necessary to delete any configuration settings on the drives. Failure
to do so can cause conflicting RAID settings on the CR3500 controller. For additional
information on deleting configuration settings present on the drives, see the "CRErase
Utility Information" section at the end of this chapter.
1. Physically add the drives to the system.
2. Run the CR3500 Configuration Utility to configure the drives.
NOTE: You cannot increase the capacity of an existing logical drive.
3. From the Main window, click Physical Drive, then click New.
4. The Add New Physical Drive window appears. Enter the channel
number and Target ID for the new physical drive. The Target ID is
displayed on the grid.
NOTE: An alternate method for adding drives is to click on an empty cell in the grid, then
right-click and select New. This presents the Add New Physical Drive window with the
channel number and target ID currently assigned.
5. Click the OK button. The program adds the physical drive to your
configuration and refreshes the main screen.