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booting a shadow mirrored disk?



 
 
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Old September 25th 04, 09:25 AM
Mick Miller
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Default booting a shadow mirrored disk?


Wehave an ML350..with no raid card (dont ask not my desision)

2 drives running software mirroring (dont blame me)


the main drive has failed .......shaddow wont boot

We have had the same problem on some clone servers all boot fine, i
know the problems software mirrioring cause

but does anyone know a easy way to make the compaq boot?
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Old September 25th 04, 05:30 PM
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I am assuming that you have an NT/2000 floppy boot disk. Did you modify the
ARC path so that disk 1 is used to boot from, rather than disk 0 (which is
the drive i presume has failed)?

take this experience to your bosses. ask them for $75 to go ebay a decent
hardware controller.

- LC

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Wehave an ML350..with no raid card (dont ask not my desision)

2 drives running software mirroring (dont blame me)


the main drive has failed .......shaddow wont boot

We have had the same problem on some clone servers all boot fine, i
know the problems software mirrioring cause

but does anyone know a easy way to make the compaq boot?



 




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