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October 27th, 2010 12:00
Disks show up as N/A when trying to add them to a disk pool
I have an AX150 with 4 disks. Disks 0 and 1 are assigned to Disk Pool 1 as RAID 1/0, Disks2 and 3 were assigned to Disk Pool 2 as RAID 1/0. I decided to destroy Disk Pool 2 and assign disks 2 and 3 to Disk Pool 1. I successfully destroyed Disk Pool 2, and when I go to Disk Pools, Disks 2 and 3 show up as "Available". So I then click on the Disk Pool 1 link, click Expand, but on that screen, Disks 2 and 3 show up as "N/A" and I connot assign them. Do I have to wait a couple of hours before they are available?
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Dev Mgr
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October 27th, 2010 17:00
This is a 'design flaw' (for lack of a better description); you cannot add the flare drives (the first 4 drives that contain the operating system for the storage array) to a diskpool, even if those drives are the same size or larger than the other drives in the diskpool that you want to add them to. There is no updated flare to fix/address this.
You'll have to copy the data off of the virtual disk on diskpool 1, destroy the virtual disk, destroy the diskpool, create the diskpool with all 4 drives, recreate the virtual disk (may as well make it larger if that was your plan), and restore your data.
MattPalmgren
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October 28th, 2010 01:00
A seemingly undocumented flaw as well. Thanks for the info. I was planning on buying additional drives anyay, I guess I will add a couple new ones to Disk Pool 1, recreate Disk Pool 2 with drives 2 and 3, and add drives to that.