Despite reading the Dell manual and searching the net, I haven't been able to solve an issue with the PERC 6i adapter, so I'm hoping that someone in this community could set me on the right track ...
the setup:
- a Dell T7500 tower with one PERC 6i adapter
- the PERC 6i controller currently has the following setup:
-- one 1 TB SATA HDD configured as VD0 (RAID 0) ==> this is the C-drive for the operating system (Win7)
-- two 2 TB SATA HDD's configured as VD1 (RAID 0) ==> this is the drive for my user data
the problem:
- additionally, the drive enclosure has one additional 1 TB SATA HDD (same type as I use for the VD0), which is visible as HDD1 in the PD view
- I would like to add this HDD to VD0 and make a raid level migration from RAID-0 to RAID-1
what I encounter:
- I select HDD1 in the PD Mgmt view, press F2 and select 'Make Global HS" and press "Yes"
- I get the message: "Warning! None of the existing VD's will be covered by this Hot Spare. Error code: Unknown"
- In the VD Mgmt view, the disk is now visible under the Hot Spare branch of the tree, highlighted in red color, and with the text: "--:--:01 (Global, Unusable. Affinity)"
Anyone familiar with this - how could I add the unused disk to VD0 and then migrate VD0 (mu C-drive) from RAID-0 to RAID-1?