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[Brent Mills]

Originally Posted by mikiec

Any possibility you can run a raid or mirror configuration?

Mike

I had the boot drives mirrored, so I don't know why there was a failure, but during boot the second drive just wasn't recognized as a boot drive. Tried fixmbr with no luck....Tried repair and no luck....along with numerous other things. In the end, a new drive went in and reinstalled everything.

Two weeks ago, one of the 6 other drives failed intermittently (raid 5), which just caused the array to fall over and then I would have to reactivate the array, which doesn't work for keeping a site up without babysitting it 24/7. Just bad luck I guess.

[BMEP]

Since you said "fixmbr", I'll assume this is a Windows box. If you have the boot drives mirrored in Windows (vs. using the disk controller), there are a couple little "gotchas". The best thing to do is test it right after you load the OS and get it mirrored (by unplugging the primary drive and trying to boot).

Here's a Microsoft KB article that might help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167045

Also, you need a boot.ini that points to the secondary drive. This can be done with a floppy boot disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311073/en-us

HTH, Rob

[Jay Little]

Thanks Brent! I thought I was being banned or something!

[Brent Mills]

Originally Posted by BMEP

Since you said "fixmbr", I'll assume this is a Windows box. If you have the boot drives mirrored in Windows (vs. using the disk controller), there are a couple little "gotchas". The best thing to do is test it right after you load the OS and get it mirrored (by unplugging the primary drive and trying to boot).

Here's a Microsoft KB article that might help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167045

Also, you need a boot.ini that points to the secondary drive. This can be done with a floppy boot disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311073/en-us

HTH, Rob

Oh, thank you!! Good stuff.