Mirrored Drives

[Jim in Arizona]

We were having problems with a two 40GB drives that were mirrored. The
mirror broke and we couldn't get it to re-mirror. We ended up buying a PCI
IDE Controller and hooked them into the PCI card and the mirror was then
successful. That told us that the onboard IDE controller was no longer
functioning properly. My question is, can we have more than one drive
mirrored to the primary drive? If we could keep three hard drives in the
machine with two of them mirrored to the primary master drive, it would give
us a better piece of mind. Yes, we do keep tape backups, but we want all the
cheap redundancy we can get!

 

[Guest]

Hy Jim

What you can do, with some sort of controllers with RAID functionality. You
have one mirror (always 2 Discs redundancy) and one socalled sparedrive (is
waiting for a broken mirrormember), which will automatically start with
mirrorcopy to the one member that has left alive.

You can't do that by default on Windows 2000.

Real fun you will have with a 2 channel RAID Controller, which is effordable
and gives you a performance boost.



Cheers Marcel

 

[Jim in Arizona]

I figured I couldn't do it via software (Win2K), but had to ask.

Thanks Marcel.