On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 02:51 +0700, Lunix1618 wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > there underneath the OS. You also may be able to do it using omconfig > > after installing omsa. This question really belongs on the Dell Linux > > list though... I can say that I've expanded a RAID5 volume underneath > > Windows quite recently on a 2850 and a 2950 without incident... > > > > > Are you sure that? I remember I found an article on Dell support site > explain that PERC 6/i doesn't support that. At the beginning I only have > 3 hdd, now I get more 3 hdd and after that I figured can not add new hdd > to existing volume. I am not install Open Manage yet ...will try it soon You'll definitely need to install Openmanage first. My 2950 boxes have PERC 5i controllers in them. > PS: sorry all for OT > > Uhh... check the DRAC - you may be able to extend the RAID5 array from > btw, how do you access to DRAC ? i configured IP address for it at > firmware boot but can not see the interface for it. It's not part of the operating system. You get to it via web browser (https) -I