Only 2 TB with 6x 1 tb drives (raid5)

[Robbie]

Below are the details shown from the 3dm ware page. I hope this helps.

Controller Details (Controller ID 2)
Model 9500S-8
Serial # F19402A4470481
Firmware FE9X 2.06.00.009
Driver 2.24.03.015fw
BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.051
Boot Loader BL9X 2.02.00.001
Memory Installed 112 MB
# of Ports 8
# of Units 1
# of Drives 6
Error Log [Download Error Log]

[Robbie]

The raid controller is:

3ware 3DM 2 version 2.03.00.025

[Robbie]

The only other detail I can think of is that the stripe size was set to 64 kb, but I'm not sure if this would have made any difference.

[To-M]

I saw this KB from 3Ware and being that it is a 9500 series you may want to try to enable the Auto Carving to see if you will see the 2 seperate arrays then you can add them together in the disk manager. I was thinking there would be an option for LBA 64bit mode but not an expert on the old controllers.

http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=13431

[To-M]

http://www.digiconcepts.com/3ware_co...ercards_08.htm "Maximum of 2 TB per RAID array" verify with the card properties - I saw this on there site.

[Robbie]

So I might need to enable Auto Carving and or create more than on array, then join them together, or will NAS 2.0 still only see 2 tbs?

How would I create more than one array?

[To-M]

It will see 2 Arrays then create one Volume group then add the other to that volume group.