VolumeWorks CANNOT expand RocketRaid 2220 RAID 5 array ! ! !

Well, I recently OCE/OLRM my RAID-0 1 TB array into a RAID-5 1.5 TB array.
I noticed after that time that OS X still reported the array as the same size.
I thought to myself, 'self ..... ***?'
So I went into disk utility and found that I had to ADD another partiton to account for the new space.
I googled.
Found a program called 'VolumeWorks'
Short story, VolumeWorks cannot expand the array partiton to 1.5 TB
Any ideas on how to expand the partition to ~1.5 TB (it's about 1.39675 TiB)?
I e-mailed them but expect a ignorant reply.
I will post on this and see if I can get a refund.
For now DO NOT use this program.
It just plain doesn't work.
PERIOD!

sadly, volumeworks completely erased my array of almost 931 GB
NEVER use this software period.

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Hello 2Old2Slow
I highly recommend that you do make plans to backup your data from the unit before attempting to expand the RAID just in case something goes wrong in the process.
When trying to expand an existing RAID 5 from 3 to 4 disks, you can use the "add disks to storage system" option that is located in Drive Management>Settings. This option will become available after a new drive is added to the empty drive and the unit is powered back on. It may need to overwrite the new disk, it will indicate which disk is being overwritten by marking the new drive with green stripes. If you are being asked to overwrite data but none of the disks show green stripes, please stop and backup first as proceeding will most likely result in all disks being overwritten.
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System: PowerMac G5 (June 2004), Mac OS 10.4.11
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William Lloyd wrote:
This doesn't sound like a good idea. You're mixing stuff in a variety of configurations that don't match, and if you want to stripe the two sides, they should match for optimal performance.
As in: they should all be 250 GB ADMs, right?
With the 750 GB and 500 GB drives, your options are RAID 0 (with NO protection) giving ~ 1 TB of storage, or RAID 1 (mirror) giving ~450 GB of storage. The latter is probably preferable.
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Additionally if the os is in the raid 5 and becomes corrupted and you are not able to get the os to boot would the raid 5 data not be able to be accessed? Or could you just reinstall the os on the array and be ok?
This would be the same if the os is inside a software mirror set?
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You should also consider another array that you can use as backup for the existing one. Perhaps a mirrored array so your backup has a backup.

I wish to migrate the software of my operating system into my raid disk array

I have not found anything
from Intel
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software to move my O.S. off the solid-state drive that it's on and put it on my RAID 5 array that's installed in my computer and working could you please give me a little adviceI have
software for conventional migration and will not work for this application.

Something here may help.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/how-to-restore-a-system-image-in-windows-server-2012/
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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[ 3.262508] iTCO_wdt: Found a Patsburg TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
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[ 3.263276] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb3
[ 3.263277] disk 2, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdd3
[ 3.263278] disk 3, wo:0, o:1, dev:sde3
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[ 3.264810] md: bind<sdb2>
[ 3.268262] async_tx: api initialized (async)
[ 3.272632] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
[ 3.272636] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
[ 3.272637] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
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[ 3.272908] md/raid:md127: device sde2 operational as raid disk 3
[ 3.272910] md/raid:md127: device sdd2 operational as raid disk 2
[ 3.272911] md/raid:md127: device sdc2 operational as raid disk 0
[ 3.273211] md/raid:md127: allocated 0kB
[ 3.273241] md/raid:md127: raid level 5 active with 4 out of 4 devices, algorithm 2
[ 3.273243] RAID conf printout:
[ 3.273244] --- level:5 rd:4 wd:4
[ 3.273245] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdc2
[ 3.273246] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
[ 3.273247] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd2
[ 3.273248] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde2
[ 3.273273] md127: detected capacity change from 0 to 8929230716928
[ 3.273322] RAID conf printout:
[ 3.273326] --- level:5 rd:4 wd:4
[ 3.273329] disk 0, o:1, dev:sdc2
[ 3.273331] disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb2
[ 3.273332] disk 2, o:1, dev:sdd2
[ 3.273360] disk 3, o:1, dev:sde2
[ 3.283617] md126: unknown partition table
[ 3.309239] md127: unknown partition table
[ 3.312660] md: bind<sdb4>
[ 3.318291] md/raid1:md124: not clean -- starting background reconstruction
[ 3.318296] md/raid1:md124: active with 4 out of 4 mirrors
[ 3.318333] md124: detected capacity change from 0 to 10736291840
[ 3.318385] RAID1 conf printout:
[ 3.318391] --- wd:4 rd:4
[ 3.318395] disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc4
[ 3.318398] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb4
[ 3.318402] disk 2, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdd4
[ 3.318405] disk 3, wo:0, o:1, dev:sde4
[ 3.319890] md124: unknown partition table
[ 3.323462] md: bind<sde1>
[ 3.338094] md/raid1:md125: active with 4 out of 4 mirrors
[ 3.338225] md125: detected capacity change from 0 to 2146414592
[ 3.338253] RAID1 conf printout:
[ 3.338258] --- wd:4 rd:4
[ 3.338262] disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdc1
[ 3.338266] disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb1
[ 3.338268] disk 2, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdd1
[ 3.338271] disk 3, wo:0, o:1, dev:sde1
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mdadm.conf
# The designation "partitions" will scan all partitions found in /proc/partitions
DEVICE partitions
ARRAY /dev/md127 metadata=1.2 name=(none):0 UUID=d1d14afc:23490940:a0f7f996:d7b87dfb
ARRAY /dev/md126 metadata=1.2 name=(none):50 UUID=d43d5dd6:9446766e:1a7486f4:b811e16d
ARRAY /dev/md125 metadata=1.2 name=(none):10 UUID=f502437a:d27d335a:d11578d5:6e119d58
ARRAY /dev/md124 metadata=1.2 name=(none):70 UUID=ea980643:5c1b79e8:64f1b4cb:2462799b
Last edited by brando56894 (2014-04-21 22:51:01)

Sorry I numbered them to show the flow of information, this was also just a place for me to store info as I worked through it. I managed to get it to work by creating a partition that takes up the whole drive and is actually 22 GB larger than all the other drives (since I found out that the had root, swap and home partitions that are no longer needed).
I should be able to resize the other partitions without a problem, correct? They're EXT4. Should I unmount the raid array and do them individually, remount the array, let it sync and do the next? Or just unmount the array, resize all of them, mount it and let it sync?

VolumeWorks CANNOT expand RocketRaid 2220 RAID 5 array ! ! !

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