How to determine how many hard drives this server has via the OS

[Rozz Williams]

Hi,

I have a Compaq ProLiant DL380 G2 running Microsoft Windows 2000
Server 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195. I have two questions:

1. How can I determine the number of hard drives the server has via
the operating system? I'm looking at two areas which make no sense to
me:

A. start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> Device Manager -> Disks. This shows 4 entries,
does this mean that there are 4 hard drives?

B. start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> storage -> Disk Management. This shows disk 0 -
disk 3, but each disk differs in size, so I believe these are logical
disk drives.

2. There is a Disk Array attached to this server. How can I determine
how many hard drives it contains and what type of RAID setup (5, 0+1)
it is running? Also, how can I determine what is the make and model
number of this disk array?

Thanks in advance!

Regards...

 

[Dan Seur]

Device manager/disk drives is telling you that you have 4 hard drives,
drives 0...3.

Disk Management is telling you have 4 hard drives (HDD0-3) and the size
of each, and within each is displaying their partitions (volumes) with
volume letters and sizes as well. If you have other drives (CDs, etc) it
is also displaying these.

Source of confusion: when people say "drive C:", they're really talking
about a partition (volume) named "C:". Also, since a partition may
occupy all the space on a hard drive, there's even more confusion.

The primary master drive is always drive 0, and the rules for numbering
are fixed. The BIOS assigns these numbers, and all OSs depend on them.
The OS, however, knows we foggy humans like to arrange our files in an
intuitively human-understandable way, so it lets us use nice alphabetics
and filenames, and does a heck of a lot of translating into machinespeak
while it does what we ask it to do.

I can't answer your question about determining your RAID structure,
sorry. Are there any clues in Device Manager under "SCSI and RAID
Controllers"?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Answered in .file_system

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| Hi,
|
| I have a Compaq ProLiant DL380 G2 running Microsoft Windows 2000
| Server 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195. I have two questions:
|
| 1. How can I determine the number of hard drives the server has via
| the operating system? I'm looking at two areas which make no sense to
| me:
|
| A. start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools ->
| Computer Management -> Device Manager -> Disks. This shows 4 entries,
| does this mean that there are 4 hard drives?
|
| B. start -> settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools ->
| Computer Management -> storage -> Disk Management. This shows disk 0 -
| disk 3, but each disk differs in size, so I believe these are logical
| disk drives.
|
| 2. There is a Disk Array attached to this server. How can I determine
| how many hard drives it contains and what type of RAID setup (5, 0+1)
| it is running? Also, how can I determine what is the make and model
| number of this disk array?
|
| Thanks in advance!
|
| Regards...

 

[techno]

Device manager/disk drives is telling you that you have 4 hard drives,
drives 0...3.

Disk Management is telling you have 4 hard drives (HDD0-3) and the size
of each, and within each is displaying their partitions (volumes) with
volume letters and sizes as well. If you have other drives (CDs, etc) it
is also displaying these.

Source of confusion: when people say "drive C:", they're really talking
about a partition (volume) named "C:". Also, since a partition may
occupy all the space on a hard drive, there's even more confusion.

The primary master drive is always drive 0, and the rules for numbering
are fixed. The BIOS assigns these numbers, and all OSs depend on them.
The OS, however, knows we foggy humans like to arrange our files in an
intuitively human-understandable way, so it lets us use nice alphabetics
and filenames, and does a heck of a lot of translating into machinespeak
while it does what we ask it to do.

I can't answer your question about determining your RAID structure,
sorry.

On my system there is an running process in the task bar called
SATARaid that I can double-click and get the RAID setup info from.
His adapter and RAID software may be different.
Trying Ctl-Alt-Del, Task Manager, Processes might show a running
"RAID" file.
The My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device manager will show which
chipset is used for the RAID controller.

You're probably going to have to determine what chipset you have and
then visit the manufacturers website and see what utilities are
available for setting & viewing it's RAID characteristics. There may
be a generalized "RAID" reporting utility out there that someone has
made.