Storage spaces will not add a drive to existing pool

[chris heyworth]

Hi all,
I have windows server 2022 running storage spaces with an existing pool of 8 drives (some SAS some SATA, either 12TB or 16TB)
But i am unable to add 3 drives to this pool.
All three are HGST huh721212al4200 drives, i can create a new pool with the 3 drives fine but no add to existing pool.

i get the same error weather i try one disk or all three.

Ideas?

Thnaks

 

[DavidWJohnston]

Not sure if this will help, but I found this article describing this error occurring when the drives are not clean (ex: existing volumes/partitions):

Storage Spaces Can't Add Drives (Request Is Not Supported Error 0x00000032) - Tech Journey

When trying a add a disk drive to a storage pool of Storage Spaces, whether it’s internal HDD […]

techjourney.net

Perhaps when creating a new pool Windows "cleans" the disks automatically, but does not when adding drives to an existing pool, maybe for safety.

Try the reset/clean procedure and see if that helps. The article has a powershell method, but usually I do this with the "clean" command in DISKPART. Ex: CMD-Admin -> diskpart -> list disk -> select disk X -> clean -> exit

 

[chris heyworth]

thanks, but i have already tried that.

 

[chris heyworth]

Could it be the sector size?

The existing volume has a sector size of 512b, but the 3 drives are 4kb drives.

 

[gregsachs]

Could it be the sector size?

The existing volume has a sector size of 512b, but the 3 drives are 4kb drives.

I believe that is your issue. Decent chance the space has been created with 512k logical sectors, and needs to be recreated with 4k.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide | Dell US Virgin Islands

Get-virtualDisk | Sort-Object SlotNumber | Select-Object SlotNumber, FriendlyName, Manufactur
er, Model, PhysicalSectorSize, LogicalSectorSize | Format-Table
WIll show you the logical sector size