From: "Kevin Howell" 
Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring
Date: 2000/02/29
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: Sumlock Electronics Ltd
Reply-To: "Kevin Howell" 
Newsgroups: fido.novell

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.
>
>