Re: Another mirrored drives question

From: DL (dl_at_spoofmail.com)
Date: 06/15/04


Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:19:25 +0100

During post you should receive a msg if mirror is broken, you will then have
the option to enter Raid config to rebuild the mirror.
I have a Silicon Image Controller, they also supply a raid utility App that
I can access at any time, or config to send an email err.report -
unfortunately it doesnt run correctly, the utility that is, so far I have
been unable to resolve this issue.

"Don B." <DonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8546E1BF-871F-46A9-A796-C3EFFC3156D9@microsoft.com...
> I posted the following:
>
> Re: Does anyone know the answer? Raid1 configuration
>
> In: microsoft.public.win2000.general
>
> > I have a new server running Windows Server 2003 Standard. It has 2 100
gig
> SATA hard drives. The motherboard utility has been configured for
mirroring.
> Both HDDs show up in BIOS, however, in the disk management in Windows I
only
> have one drive showing up. Can anyone help me out with this?
>
> dl responded: (by the way thanks for the quick response)
>
> If the two sata drives are set as mirror then you will only see one hd in
> management.
> Leastways thats how it is on my Win2K pro
>
> If this is the case, is there any way to check the status of a mirored
drive? It seems that I am leaving alot to faith if there is no way to check
or verify the status of a mirrored drive and I'm not much of one for faith
based initiatives.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Don
>



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