Re: another MS cockup??

From: Simon (Simonx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:05 -0000

No sorry - I don't accept that unless its cosmetic.

I will... READ as you say. To me it sounds like documentation REDONE after
designing the system!!!
(Not that we have never seen that with MS !!!)

Sorry, keep at it BUT - this does NOT happen everytime!!

It seems to be random!!

Just tried this in front of an MCSE who tells me similar!!!

3 Shutdown's - NO remirroring (each time I copied some random data from CD
on to server's hdd - to give it some activity)

NO resynching !!

4th time - hey presto RESYNCYING on boot up.....

???

Aim to do some more test cycles when resync is complete.
I can afford to play at this stage !!

(You are right - Hardware raid is preferred - but this is a 5 user system.
Took me long enough to convince them to put a server in).

Some questions come to mind :-
(1) when Resyncing is in progress I expect one of the Hard Disks, presumably
disks 0 is uptodate disk 1 is not
until resync is complete. That means I have a DESTROYED mirror right ?
(which is unuseable??)
(2) The amount of time taken is roughly the same as when the mirror is made
of a BLANK disk which means data is copied from disk 0 to 1 - again!!?? **
How very stupid **
(3) why bother - if you can't rely on it !!

PS: I'm not a MCSE or a technical expert
and none of these comments are directed at you personally...
Just very angry at this stage.

"Tami Farrelly" <TamiFarrelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A2B3B15-7433-451E-8268-192198BDAB44@microsoft.com...
> Thats how mirroring works...
> Do some reading
>
>
> "Simon" wrote:
>
> > No, that's wrong!!
> >
> > I asked the system to MIRROR 2 drives.
> >
> > Once Mirrored - I would NOT expect it to re-mirror everytime I start the
> > computer - that's stupid.
> > The mirror was setup 2 weeks ago.
> >
> > I said SHUTDOWN to move the Server.
> > I expect Windows to shutdown GRACEFULLY and Power down the Server.
> > It did... no error reported.
> >
> > Both Drives should be identical.
> >
> > Therefore when the Server Re-Starts - there is NO need to re-mirror, is
> > there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Tami Farrelly" <TamiFarrelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
> > news:C0968D54-5412-40B2-B6A2-F23DF0C8F06B@microsoft.com...
> > > Its writting the mirror...like you asked it too??
> > >
> > > I dont have a big site...and we use hardware RAID..
> > > cause we had a harddrive failure..(mirrored) and still took a day to
get
> > > back online..
> > > with the exchange and backup restore.
> > >
> > > Depends on "How much $$$" down time costs compared to the cost of
hardware
> > > RAID.
> > >
> > > I can tell them tell I am blue in the face...but they usually only go
with
> > > the hardware...after a major failure and downtime.
> > >
> > >
> > > Tami
> > > "Simon" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using SBS2003 Std with software RAID (well mirroring)
> > > > With 2 x 40Gb IDE drives - Mirrored
> > > >
> > > > Every time I shutdown & Restart the Server - Its synchronising ...
> > > >
> > > > Why ??
> > > >
> > > > If this was a big site - I'd use SCSI RAID controller
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >