S5000PAL SROMBSAS18E Raid10 from 6 disks

[idata]

Hi,

I am trying to create a RAID10 volume, from 6 disks, but I am unable, I can only create raid 50 or raid 00 or raid 10 with 4 disks if I add a third drive to the span, it just thosent let me create

MB S5000PAL

Version: S5000.86B.15.00.01.01.110920101604

RAID controller: SROMBSAS18E

FW Package: 7.0.1-0075

FW: 1.12.280-0826

RA

[Daniel_O_Intel]

Are you adding the drives, two at a time, into the array? See page 77 (91 of 208) in the User Guide at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-022358.htm Server Products - Intel RAID software users guide

[idata]

I Created a short video on how I can create RAID 10 from 4 disks and can only create raid 50 or 00 with 6 disks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D2Wz2zthXJU LSI Intel RAID 10 - YouTube

[Daniel_O_Intel]

Arnoldas -

Good idea on the video, that really made things clear. Instead of making a disk group (DG) of three, then making a second DG of three drives, what you need to do is:

Add drives 1 and 2, accept DG

Add drives 3 and 4, accept DG

Add drives 5 and 6, accept DG

You should now have three groups of two drives (instead of two groups of three drives), and can make a RAID 10.