I have 9 identically configured PowerEdge 2950's with PERC 5/i and 6x 1 TB SATA drives. On one of the servers I was able to create a 200GB VD and a ~4.5TB (rest of the space) VD on the same 6-disk RAID 5 Array. Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce that on any of the other machine (and I eventually had to reconfigure the orginal machine to match configuration I could make work).

Was I some how just lucky the first time and managed something that is not supported? Or is there a way to make this work?

The problem I run into is that once I create the small VD on the RAID 5 array I no longer have the option to create VD. Any suggestions about how to make this happen? -Dave