Hi all, having a bit of a nightmare adding disks to the storage pool on my home server and would appreciate any help.
The server is running on a Tranquil PC Barebones Server and I currently have a single 2Tb WD Green drive as the primary drive. I thought i'd stick in a couple of Samsung F1 1Tb drives in the box to add to the storage pool however when i tried to add them the following happens:
1) The wizard starts correctly and goes through the formatting disk, which it reports as successful
2) The wizard goes through the adding drive stage, then the client backup service crashes and the wizard then reports "hard drive initialization failed" - The wizard was unable to create a volume on the drive.
The Client Backup service reports an info event ID 257 in the Homeserver event log
I had an issue with both F1 drives reporting the cache size (i.e 32mb) when the were in my main PC however that was resolved using the ESUtil provided by Samsung and these drives have been working fine every since.
Today I received 2 brand new WD Green 1Tb drives which I tried in the server and once again the wizard failed as above. Thats 4 drives, all of which I know are functional, not being added to the storage pool.
I've done the following to attempt to resolve the issue:
1) Checked the driver versions of the onboard SATA card and the SIL Raid controller (for the purpose of testing I have tried disks on both controllers but get the same issue)
2) Ran Diskpart/Clean on all 4 disks
3) Done the Diskpart/Clean and created formatted simple volumes on all 4 disks on the WHS
4) Used mountvol /e
5) Checked all disks show in diskmanager.
6) All disks are visible in the home server console
As far as I am aware the installation went quite smoothly off a USB key and all the drivers were added as expected. The only thing i haven't done is reinstalled WHS!
Any advice much appreciated!
Installing from USB is unsupported. Perhaps there is something wrong with your install. Any reason you didn't install from the DVD?
PS, Is there any way to get the disk extender functionality (or indeed any native util that simulates it) in 2008 storage server because if so, i'd rather use that!
No.
Did you try removing all partitions from the drive (so that it shows up as unallocated) and add the drives that way? Do you have a PATA drive you can try adding?
