How do I know what drive is using what letter. 2003 Server.

[Guest Calab]

I've got seven drives on an Adaptec 16 port RAID controller. Three of them

are individual volumes. I can't find any way to determine which drive is

using which drive letter.

 

Can anyone other there help?

[Guest Ace Fekay [MVP]]

Re: How do I know what drive is using what letter. 2003 Server.

 

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Calab <myspam@csd.ca> typed:

> I've got seven drives on an Adaptec 16 port RAID controller. Three of

> them are individual volumes. I can't find any way to determine which

> drive is using which drive letter.

>

> Can anyone other there help?

 

Did you install the software for the controller? I believe it will tell you

by port or LUN. If I remember, I think there may also be an option you can

click on to blink the drive light, but I don't think the software will tell

you which drive letter it is.

 

If the drives are all of the same size, it will be difficult. You can look

in Computer Management, Disk Management. You'll see Disk0, Disk1, etc. They

usually will follow the port numbers on each controller, with the first one

being on controller 1, and the drive ports will be based on lower to higher

(Disk0=port0, Disk1 - port1, etc). If any of them are part of a RAID, it

will complicate it.

 

You can probably also perform some action, such as copy a large file on a

drive to another folder on the same drive and observe the lights.

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Ace

 

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[Guest Calab]

Re: How do I know what drive is using what letter. 2003 Server.

 

 

"Calab" <myspam@csd.ca> wrote in message

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| I've got seven drives on an Adaptec 16 port RAID controller. Three of them

| are individual volumes. I can't find any way to determine which drive is

| using which drive letter.

|

| Can anyone other there help?

 

What I finally ended up doing was disconnecting one drive at a time and

refreshing the view in Adaptec software and in My Computer.

[Guest Ace Fekay [MVP Directory Services]]

Re: How do I know what drive is using what letter. 2003 Server.

 

 

"Calab" <myspam@csd.ca> wrote in message

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>

> What I finally ended up doing was disconnecting one drive at a time and

> refreshing the view in Adaptec software and in My Computer.

>

>

 

That's one way to do it! I was going to suggest that, but thought to try the

other methods first because of the constant restarts. But its good you

figured it out.

 

Ace