Re: RAID-1 & Windows 2003 SP1

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In news:%23UEr2Ej0FHA.3956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Hello,
>
> I have three HP servers with SATA disks but without hardware RAID, and
> I'd like to do software RAID of the system partition. I am using
> Windows 2003 Standard SP1 in one of the servers and Windows 2003
> Enterprise SP1 in the other two servers.
>
> I have followed the instructions in
> http://www.netadmintools.com/art439.html and
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B323432&x=21&y=6 and
> everything looks like it is working fine (mirror is created), but it
> does not. When I take off the main disk and try to boot from the
> mirror disk, it does not boot. It looks like the mirror disk has
> data, but no boot sector.
>
> How could I get Windows 2003 SP1 software RAID-1 to work properly? (i.
> e. if the main disk breaks, I would replace it with the mirror disk
> and the system would boot and work with the mirror disk)
>
> Thank you.

I don't like software RAID. I like SCSI hardware RAID with hot-swap drives.
Too much can go wrong otherwise - just my $.02.


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