(continuing from previous posts)
OK. In the morning, all the LEDs were solid green.
BTW, be sure to rename your new, large NTFS volume to whatever you want it to be while still connected to Vista.
Also, you might want to lift the front cover of your new drive (two small tabs below the front plastic face) and check the drives. Mine were all laying sideways - evidence of a hard drop somewhere. :^(
The drives in my 4.0 TB HD-QS4.0TSU2/R5 (4TB DriveStation Quattro TurboUSB) are Hitachi HDT721010SLA360. SATA 3.0 Gb/s. RPM: 7200
I connected the newly partitioned Drivestation to my Linux box with the eSata cable. I fired up the computer. I am already running ntfs-3g, so my computer can read and write NTFS volumes. Next, I checked to see how the computer saw the drive. fdisk -l isn't reliable above 2GB partitions, so I used parted.
User> parted
(parted) print all
Model: ATA BUFFALO HD-QSSU2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
2 135MB 3000GB 3000GB ntfs Basic data partition
All looks good. I added this drive to my Samba configuration and my Windows XP box can see the drive over the network. I don't know how to use XP to find out the file size of a SMB mounted drive, so I can't verify that the XP box will be able to see more than 2GB, but I am confident that it will.
Now the copying from my old non-RAID drives to my new RAID drive begins.....