unable to see the entire volume in Windows 2003

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tempp
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Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:29 pm

Hi,

I am connecting a Windows 2003 server (32bit) to a S1520 coraid. The coraid unit has a single etherdrive defined with 4.5T capacity. When I used the StarPort driver to add the etherdrive to the system, Windows saw the device as one single disk with 2 volume, 2T and 2.1T. I was able to use the first volume, but not the second one (unable to create partition and etc). I was unable to convert the disk from basic to dynamic.

My goal is to be able use the entire etherdrive as a single volume and I am not sure if this problem is more on the Windows side or on the StarPort driver itself.

I am using StarPort 3.5 build 0x20070707.

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tempp
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:16 am

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Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:45 pm

Do you mean that even the AoE driver only see 2 2T volume in the disk management console, I still can use it (disk management console) or diskpart to create a single partition using the entire size of the etherdrive?

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Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:22 pm

No. What I wanted to say is "Upgrade your Windows to R2 SP1 or x64 as only they do understand 2TB+ volumes".
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tempp
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Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:00 pm

According to the MS documentation, Windows 2003 SP1 (non R2) supports GPT drive. I will give that a try before I try to upgrade the server to R2.

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Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:57 pm

tempp wrote:According to the MS documentation, Windows 2003 SP1 (non R2) supports GPT drive. I will give that a try before I try to upgrade the server to R2.

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You are right, Windows 2003 SP1 does support GPT drives.
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Valeriy
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