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How to explore disk raiding status in Win2k3Server

I have servers with (I believe) SCSI raided drives, but I don't know how to investigate the raiding. There seems to be no program utility that looks at the raid setup, that I can find.

From System Information/Storage/Drives:

Drive      C:
Description      Local Fixed Disk
Compressed      No
File System      NTFS
Size      24.41 GB (26,213,933,056 bytes)
Free Space      16.07 GB (17,250,488,320 bytes)
Volume Name      
Volume Serial Number      BC9EF57B
      
Drive      D:
Description      Local Fixed Disk
Compressed      No
File System      NTFS
Size      123.66 GB (132,780,691,456 bytes)
Free Space      103.28 GB (110,891,180,032 bytes)
Volume Name      New Volume
Volume Serial Number      C01B50EE
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From System Information/Storage/Disks:
      
Description      Disk drive
Manufacturer      (Standard disk drives)
Model      LSILOGIC Logical Volume SCSI Disk Device
Bytes/Sector      512
Media Loaded      Yes
Media Type      Fixed hard disk
Partitions      2
SCSI Bus      0
SCSI Logical Unit      0
SCSI Port      4
SCSI Target ID      1
Sectors/Track      63
Size      148.08 GB (158,994,662,400 bytes)
Total Cylinders      19,330
Total Sectors      310,536,450
Total Tracks      4,929,150
Tracks/Cylinder      255
Partition      Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size      24.41 GB (26,213,935,104 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset      32,256 bytes
Partition      Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size      123.66 GB (132,780,695,040 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset      26,213,967,360 bytes
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From System Information/Storage/SCSI:

Name      LSI Adapter, SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068 -StorPort
Manufacturer      LSI Logic
Status      OK
PNP Device ID      PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0054&SUBSYS_3228103C&REV_00\5&38297521&0&080220
I/O Port      0x00004000-0x00004FFF
Memory Address      0xFDFF0000-0xFDFF3FFF
Memory Address      0xFDFE0000-0xFDFEFFFF
IRQ Channel      IRQ 72
Driver      c:\windows\system32\drivers\lsi_sas.sys (1.21.03.00 built by: WinDDK, 87.00 KB (89,088 bytes), 8/30/2005 5:21 AM)

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When the server is booting you should see options to enter the raid controller configuration. In this you will see all the details.
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bhnmi is correct.  also, depending on your server manufacturer you can probably go to the manufacturer website & download some sort of disk management utility that allows you to view & edit you configuration. most of them supply those utilities in their 'Downloads & Drives' section.
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Without taking the server down, is it even possible to determine if the drives are raided?
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what is the server make & model?  
how many drives do you see in the phsical server?  
what are the partition sizes of the C: drive D: drive etc or is it just C:?
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HP Proliant ML150 (From above info) looks like the system is partitioned into C: and D:,. I can't conveniently open the physical box without taking it down.
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