Hi Johnson,
play with it, I'll break the RAID and try again, following your step. And see what happen.
One thing I forgot to mention. Can you also run FDISK /STATUS at each stage of your testing and note the output. This _should_ correctly identify the overall size of your RAID 5 array and show what you've used so far. If that size does not agree with the size reported by the SCSI BIOS controller UI, then all bets are off, and we have a more fundamental problem. Check things like whether extended INT13 support is enabled in the BIOS, but make sure you put settings back before you install Windows 2003. IBM may have set it for a reason.
An interesting point arises from this; as discussed earlier, the o/s would usually go on a mirror. In this case, the MBR would be duplicated to the MBR section of each physical disk, but under RAID5, I wonder what happens to the MBR?? Does it get striped across three disks?!?
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