Can you use a single drive in an Xserve RAID?
Dumb question of the new year...
I want to use just a single drive in my XServe RAID and I can't seem to figure out how to make it active. Here is what I am looking at:
[b]Upper Controller[/b]
1 - 250GB - A
2 - 250GB - A
3 - 250GB - A
4 - 250GB - A
5 - 250GB - Hot Spare For A
6 - 750GB - Not Used (But RAID Admin is seeing them as "spare")
7 - 750GB - Not Used (But RAID Admin is seeing them as "spare")
[b]Lower Controller[/b]
All 7 drives are 500GB in a RAID 5
I want to use each of the 750 GB drive indivdually, as single drives. I can't see a way in RAID Admin 1.5.1 to let me do this.
I found some old documentation on Apple's website about using single disks, but it referenced the old RAID Utility software which I am guessing was replaced my RAID Admin.
Right now, if this is not possible, I could put the two 750 GB drives in the XServe itself. The downside of this is that it would kill off my backup hard drive for my server, but I could image that to another location I guess.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Eric