Re: SBS 2003 + SATA + failing software mirror

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Interesting..

Where I'd previously zeroed both disk in WDC disk manager before I set them up again.

I've just added the second drive into the system and it's come up as 'Unknown - not initialized'

When I step through the wizard to write a signature to it, albeit without converting it to dynamic..it now says: Initialize to MBR - Disk1...I wonder if this has written something to the disk this time.

I didn't see this before when I originally got the disks out of the anti stat bags and put them in the system.

I guess this is now coming up because I zeroed the drives..

Wonder if the shadow will work now once I've converted and mirrored..or should I create a partition, mark it as active and then delete it ? yeah lets try that..

Hmm..



"Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gl5a0v$83o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your steps are certainly covered towards the bottom of this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167045/en-us

Ah ha..VMware or Microsoft ?

I used to use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC 2007 all the time....until I discovered VMware.

VMware is brilliant.

I was wondering about testing on a VM, but I suspect that my problem may be something SATA related.

I'm goin to try on an IDE based setup soon as I can pickup a box with IDE channels on it...not that easy to do these days..

I'm using a small hp proliant ML110 G5 as a test server.
This is exactly the same as the customers server in the field that we are having the isssue with.

Anyway's Just been watching tv...BOB's certainly more of an orator than old Dubbya.

Are you in the states ?



"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eis%23pCoeJHA.4124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AFAIK my steps should have worked. I'm actually throwing together a virtual machine to test if I can get into the same state as you.


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