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11 assigning drive letters, Assigning drive letters – Avago Technologies MegaRAID SCSI 320-0 (520-0 CH) User Manual

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Installing and Configuring Clusters

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Step 4.

Ensure that all shared disks are formatted as NTFS and are
designated as Basic.

If you connect a new drive, the Write Signature and
Upgrade Disk Wizard starts automatically. If this occurs:

1.

Click Next to go through the wizard.

The wizard sets the disk to dynamic, but you can deselect
it at this point to set it to Basic.

2.

To reset the disk to Basic, right-click Disk # (where #
identifies the disk that you are working with) and click
Revert to Basic Disk.

Step 5.

Right-click unallocated disk space.

Step 6.

Click Create Partition… .

The Create Partition Wizard begins.

Step 7.

Click Next twice.

Step 8.

Enter the desired partition size in Mbytes or change it if desired,
but each node’s drive letters must match.

Step 9.

Click Next.

Step 10. Accept the default drive letter assignment by clicking Next.

Step 11. Click Next to format and create a partition.

4.7.11 Assigning Drive Letters

After you have configured the bus, disks, and partitions, you must assign
drive letters to each partition on each clustered disk. Perform the
following steps to assign drive letters.

Important:

Mountpoints is a feature of the file system that lets you
mount a file system using an existing directory without
assigning a drive letter. Mountpoints is not supported on
Windows 2000 clusters. Any external disk that is used as a
cluster resource must be partitioned using NTFS partitions
and must have a drive letter assigned to it.

Step 1.

Right-click the desired partition and select Change Drive Letter
and Path.

Step 2.

Select a new drive letter.