Re: Raid 0 (Mirroring) - Help?

RAID 0 is not mirroring. RAID 0 is striping without fault tolerance or
redundacy. Move the drive to the same controller. Using two drives on their
own controllers is referred to "Duplexing". Using two drives on the same
controller is "Mirroring".

"Todd H" <ToddH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am trying to setup raid 0 on my sbs 2003 box and it is not working.
> I have a Dell 600SC with 2 gig ram and SP 1 installed.
> It has two hard drives each on their own controller.
> HD 1 is on its own channel (primary) and is set to master. It has a "C"
> partition of 24.41 gig and a "D" partition of 50.8 gig
> HD 2 is on its own channel (secondary) and is also set to master and has
> no
> volume
> Both drives are set to dynamic
>
> When I select the "C" drive and the "Add Mirror" option it marks off a
> mirror section on HD 2 and begins to sync. This usually continues until
> it
> is around 30 % complete and then quits with no message at all, and the
> mirror
> does not work.
> The only thing that happens is that a yellow caution sign is displayed on
> the "C" drive and I have to select "Reactivate Volume" to get rid of it.
>
> I have tried several different combinations with the drives and get the
> same
> result each and every time. I am currently running backups every night,
> but
> really want to have the added stability of a drive mirror on my system.
> Can
> anyone help me figure out why the mirror is not working?
>
> Thanks,
> -Todd


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