> Also, (at least on W2K mirroring) the information used by the OS to do the
> mirroring is stored on the primary drive.  If that hard drive goes bad in
> the area that stores that info., you have to do low-level editing of the
> disk to recover to the mirrored drive.  In the case I dealt with this was
a
> not very fun, 5 hour call to MS PSS.  Even when the other drive was back
up,
> the volume mapping was corrupted (D: was W:, C: was Q:, etc.).  Ended up
> reloading the server.  Don't take this as an absolute technical fact since
> I'm going off memory here.

Where is it stored on the primary drive, the MBR? Or do you mean in the boot
partition? Any more information that can be provided would be a help, as I
and clients have a number of servers that use software mirrors due to cost.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
eServices For You
www.eservicesforyou.com



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