i have a server set up with 5 scsi drives, and what i want to do is merge all hard drives into 1 letter. i cant figure out how to do this. can somebody help ? i have partition magic but not sure what that would be called.
partition magic is for splitting not spanning (and even if it can do it, I wouldn't trust it, I've had all sorts of problems with partition magic) Its best to avoid software spanning or RAID, so what youll need is a SCSI RAID controller. If all of the drives are the same/similar size, you can use RAID5 to facilitate redundancy by sacrificing one drive worth of space(if a drive dies, you dont lose any data) If not, you can just use spanning, or JBOD (just a bunch of disks) which will simply combine all of the drives into one volume and will appear as a single drive in your OS.
You could assign the 1st drive a drive letter, then mount the other four drives under an empty directory on the first drive.
