Mirror Drives

[Diane Walker]

We are running Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server. Currently, the server
has (1) 36 GB Cheetah Seagate drive. We have purchased two additional
drives for redundancy. We plan to mirror the two drives and have one
spare. Do we setup the jumper on one of the spare drives as secondary?
Then, insert this drive to the server. Then, go to Disk Management and
select mirror to mirror the drives. Please let me know if you need
additional information. Thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

We are running Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server. Currently, the server
has (1) 36 GB Cheetah Seagate drive. We have purchased two additional
drives for redundancy. We plan to mirror the two drives and have one
spare. Do we setup the jumper on one of the spare drives as secondary?
Then, insert this drive to the server. Then, go to Disk Management and
select mirror to mirror the drives. Please let me know if you need
additional information. Thanks.

You can set up a mirror between any two drives that are
recognised by your server. Here is the list of IDE drives
you can have:

- Primary master
- Primary slave
- Secondary master
- Secondary slave

The choice between "primary" and "secondary" is made
by connecting the ribbon cable to the primary or secondary
controller socket on the motherboard. The choice between
master and slave is made with a jumper on the disk itself.
There is no jumper to select between "primary" and "secondary".

 

[techno]

We are running Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server. Currently, the server
has (1) 36 GB Cheetah Seagate drive. We have purchased two additional
drives for redundancy. We plan to mirror the two drives and have one
spare. Do we setup the jumper on one of the spare drives as secondary?
Then, insert this drive to the server. Then, go to Disk Management and
select mirror to mirror the drives. Please let me know if you need
additional information. Thanks.

Don't know how much you know about RAID controllers.

Your motherboard or seperate drive controller must have a RAID
controller on it. A server should have been set up with RAID and
hot swap modules so that a bad drive can be pulled and a good drive
plugged in while the system is running. If not a hot swap controller,
then you'll have to shut down you computer. As far as I know you don't
put the spare drive in the computer until it is time. I believe you're
going to have to set the drive select prior to inserting the
replacement drive.

Your controller or the manufacturer of the RAID controller chipset
will have drivers for your OS, or Mcrosoft's update service will
possibly take care of it.

RAID 1 will make a mirror image on a second drive. RAID 0 is
stripping, and does not mirror anything. The really fancy RAID
controllers have other RAID modes, but most home users use RAID 0 or
1 only. If you want speed, then you use RAID 0. If you want backup
then you use RAID 1.

That's about all I know about my RAID as used in Windows 2000 and in
Windows XP. There may be special things with your Windows 2003
Standard Edition Server that others will have to answer.

There are many offers of "HardDrive HotSwap Removable Mobile Racks" on
eBAY all going for a few dollars each. They fit into the 5-1/4" bays
of your computer and the removable module holds a 3-1/2" drive. Make
sure that the rack supports your drive speed (UDMA/133) and that you
use the 80-pin cables if UDMA/133. Also take into account whether the
drives need extra cooling since these racks are more confined.

As an example of an enclosure with fan and keylock

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20316&item=5730772877&rd=1

Best of luck.

 

[Diane Walker]

Thank you very much for your quick response. My apology. I forgot to let
you know these drives will be setup as RAID. We are purchasing a RAID
Controller card. Do you have any suggestions on how to do mirroring on
these drives? Do I still need to setup jumpers on the drives? Please let
me know if you need additional information. Thanks.

 

[Diane Walker]

Thanks very much for your information.

Don't know how much you know about RAID controllers.

Your motherboard or seperate drive controller must have a RAID
controller on it. A server should have been set up with RAID and
hot swap modules so that a bad drive can be pulled and a good drive
plugged in while the system is running. If not a hot swap controller,
then you'll have to shut down you computer. As far as I know you don't
put the spare drive in the computer until it is time. I believe you're
going to have to set the drive select prior to inserting the
replacement drive.

Your controller or the manufacturer of the RAID controller chipset
will have drivers for your OS, or Mcrosoft's update service will
possibly take care of it.

RAID 1 will make a mirror image on a second drive. RAID 0 is
stripping, and does not mirror anything. The really fancy RAID
controllers have other RAID modes, but most home users use RAID 0 or
1 only. If you want speed, then you use RAID 0. If you want backup
then you use RAID 1.

That's about all I know about my RAID as used in Windows 2000 and in
Windows XP. There may be special things with your Windows 2003
Standard Edition Server that others will have to answer.

There are many offers of "HardDrive HotSwap Removable Mobile Racks" on
eBAY all going for a few dollars each. They fit into the 5-1/4" bays
of your computer and the removable module holds a 3-1/2" drive. Make
sure that the rack supports your drive speed (UDMA/133) and that you
use the 80-pin cables if UDMA/133. Also take into account whether the
drives need extra cooling since these racks are more confined.

As an example of an enclosure with fan and keylock

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20316&item=5730772877&rd=1

Best of luck.