From: "whoever" 
Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring
Date: 2000/02/29
Message-ID: #1/1
References:  
Organization: Telocity Inc
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:14:49 PST
Newsgroups: fido.novell

Thanks.  That's kind of what I figured.
Kevin Howell  wrote in message
news:38bbabde@runswick.octacon.co.uk...
> Novell's mirroring doe's not mirror the DOS partition. You will have to
> create the partition manually using FDISK.EXE then format, and xcopy /s
all
> of the c:\ drive. The remaining amount disk space must be exactly the same
> as the drive you want to mirror eg same starting block and end block if it
> isn't the same it won't allow you to mirror the disks.
>
> Jeff Van Houten  wrote in message
> news:gUTr4.287$3w.6957@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net...
> > I've got a 4.11 server configures with mirrored drives for the system
> > partition.  Mirroring is accomplished with Novell mirroring, not a
> > hardware-based RAID controller.  We're simply using an Adaptec 2940 and
> > using 2 SCSI devices.  Drive #0 has gone south and needs to be replaced.
> > However, the system continues to function properly.  My question is
this:
> > Since drive#0 is most likely where the DOS partition was originally
> loaded,
> > did Novell's mirroring software mirror this partition as well, or only
the
> > Novell partition on the drive?  If I shut the system down, and install a
> new
> > drive, and the DOS system hasn't been mirrored, I'm in for quite an
> > installation issue.  I know I won't lose any data, but I will lose a
> > considerable amount of time.  Thoughts would be appreciated.
> >
> >
>
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