Configuring Shared Disks; Assigning Drive Letters - LSI MegaRAID Express 500 Hardware Manual

Configuring Shared Disks

Perform the following procedure to configure the shared disks.
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Assigning Drive Letters

After you have configured the bus, disks, and partitions, you must assign drive letters to
each partition on each clustered disk.
Note: Mountpoints is a feature of the file system that lets you mount a file system using an
existing directory without assigning a drive letter. Mountpoints is not supported on
clusters. Any external disk that is used as a cluster resource must be partitioned using
NTFS partitions and have a drive letter assigned to it. Use the procedure below to assign
driver letters.
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Right-click on My Computer.
Click on Manage, then click on Storage.
Double-click on Disk Management.
Make sure that all shared disks are formatted as NTFS and are designated as Basic. If you
connect a new drive, the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard starts automatically.
If this occurs, click on Next to go through the wizard. The wizard sets the disk to
dynamic, but you can uncheck it at this point to set it to basic.
To reset the disk to Basic, right-click on Disk # (where # identifies the disk that you are
working with) and click on Revert to Basic Disk.
Right-click on unallocated disk space.
Click on Create Partition...
The Create Partition Wizard begins. Click on Next twice.
Enter the desired partition size in MB and click on Next.
Accept the default drive letter assignment by clicking on Next.
Click on Next to format and create a partition.
Right-click on the desired partition and select Change Drive Letter and Path.
Select a new drive letter.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each shared disk.
Close the Computer Management window.
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