From: rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger Kresge)
Subject: Re: NW 3.12, IDE, Mirroring
Date: 1999/06/25
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Organization: D&E SuperNet
Reply-To: rkresge@mail.redrose.omitthis.net (Roger Kresge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.netware.misc,fido.novell

"Tim Banner"  wrote:

>>IDE is a poor choice for mirroring. If you have to use IDE, make sure that
>>the drives are on separate channels. If not, you are wasting a 4gig drive.
>>The reason being is that if the master goes down, so does the slave.
>>
>
>I was under the impression that your couldn't mirror IDE drives that are on
>the same channel anyway.  I'm no expert, but I think Supervising the Network
>II says you can't do it because of the way the IDE channel works.  OK thats
>not verbatim but it wasn't much more technical than that :)

Oh, you can mirror them all right.  But what happens to the mirrored drive
if the primary drive's controller fails?  You may not be able to gain
access to the data without the primary drive's controller, or a replacement
drive that's identical to the original.  Probably not a good idea!

Roger