RE: testing mirrored drives on windows 2003

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The two drives are identical and from same manufacture.

"anoni" wrote:

> I created a mirror with two ide drives (on one cable - setup one drive as
> master and another as slave by jumpers) on windows 2003. I followed the MS
> recommendations. I created the mirror without errors. But when I tested buy
> disconnected the master and setup the slave drive to master and tried the
> bootup. It could not bootup from the second drive (I change the jumper from
> slave to master when I tried). It showed black screen with a prompt on top of
> the left upper screen.
>
> Anything I am missing. Again I followed the MS doc to do the setup and test.
>
> Thanks
.



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