Expanding Disk Drive volume?

[spreckel]

I have a Compaq ML370 server w/ an external disk array tower. It uses a Compaq Smart Array 5300 controller card.

Right now there are 2 logical drives.
Disk 0 is C:\ (system disk)
Disk 1 is E:\ RAID5 (data disk)

Disk 1 has (5) 18.2GB drives.
If you look at this drive in the disk administrator it shows Disk 1 having a space total of 69460MB and it's broken into an expanding volume. Because a year ago some one added an additional 18.2GB drive to expand the space and added it to the E:\ volume by expanding the volume in disk administrator.
So it looks kind like this if you were to look in disk administrator::
Disk 1
69460MB
____________________________________________
E: |E: |
Raid5 |Raid5 |
NTFS |NTFS |
52096MB |17364 MB |
_____________________________|_____________|

I have 3 open disk bays and I want to add (3) 18.2GB disk drives. But when I expand the array...how will NT see the new space? Will I have to expand the volume again? Will it even let me do that? HELP!!!!

 

[djhawthorn]

Don't you have to use the Compaq StartSmart Drive Configuration Utility to (re)configure your disks? Given that is where you initially started, that is where you should be doing it I would think.

Also, I thought that RAID5 can't be expanded unless you completely trash and redo the RAID configuration from scratch? MCSE NT4/W2K