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Additional Harddrives on Novell 5.0
Name: ashik Date: September 2, 2005 at 23:46:24 Pacific OS: Novell Netware 5 SP6a CPU/Ram: 2.6 GHz / 512 MB
Comment:
I have a Novel 5 Server with a 20Gb SCSI HDD. I added two additional 36GB SCSI HDDs to the same bus as the first one. The Monitor and the "List Devices" command on the server console shows the two additional HDDs. I am not able to use this space on the new HDDs. When I use the NWCONFIG utility to add volumes, I cannot do it as I cannot see the new HDDs. Earlier, I did not have the SP installed when I added the HDDs. Now I put in the SP6a and still have the same problem.
Name: paulsep Date: September 8, 2005 at 08:32:33 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
have you tried the following?
At the servers console prompt type in:
SCAN FOR NEW DEVICES
Paul
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Response Number 2
Name: ashik Date: September 12, 2005 at 06:18:18 Pacific
Reply:
I have done it and the new HDDs are detected.
Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: jiv Date: September 12, 2005 at 06:44:57 Pacific
Reply:
You will have create the NW partition on the new disks to use them in Netware.
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Response Number 4
Name: ashik Date: September 14, 2005 at 21:39:31 Pacific
Reply:
I cannot create any new partitions as the system says that there is no free space available.
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Response Number 5
Name: wanderer Date: September 15, 2005 at 10:50:16 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a bus read issue.
scsi drives tend to come preconfigured with termination enabled. This should have been disabled before they were installed. You should have a active terminator at the end of the scsi bus. Don't use drives as terminators. All drives including the original should be checked that termination if off or only enabled on the last drive [assuming no active term at the end of the cable]
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Response Number 6
Name: paulsep Date: September 16, 2005 at 16:46:45 Pacific
Reply:
Controller must be terminated and the hdd at the end off the cable must be terminated as well. No other drive must not be terminated.
If you use a scsi controller with more than one connector and use the second connector for another scsi hdd, you have to terminate this as discribed above.
Check, whether there is already a partition on the drive !!!
Paul
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Response Number 7
Name: ashik Date: September 19, 2005 at 07:59:58 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks, Paul. The HDDs were just purchased and I assumed that no partitioning was done. Thanks for the tip. Deleted all partitions and now I have the use of the free space.
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