Drive 0 in mirror failed

[Graham Coffer]

Hello folks. Hope everyone is well.
We are running win2003 standard SP1 with 2 x 36gb SCSI dynamic mirrored
disks.
Both the system C: and data D: paritions are mirrored over both disks, which
was done using the disk management mmc.
The primary drive, Drive 0 has now failed. (online,errors is the status but
the system wont boot to it)
We are having to boot to the "secondary plex" option from the startup menu.

Can anyone tell me the procedure to use in order to replace the failed
primary drive?
If it was the mirrored disk I would just break the mirror and replace the
drive but I have a feeling it's more complex than that as it's drive 0 thats
failed.
any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Graham Coffer
Network Admin
whyte and mackay

 

[Mike]

RE: Drive 0 in mirror failed

Graham,

I can't answer your question because I have the exact same problem, and was
getting ready to post about it. I have 2-73Gb SCSI disks with a Raid 1
mirror. My Disk 0 had some kind of hiccup (I called Dell and diagnostics
revealed the drive was OK, but my mirror is screwed up, when I try to boot
from Disk 0, it gets to a certain point and reboots). I boot fine from the
secondary plex mirror drive.
When I look at Disk manager, Disk 0 has the yellow triangle with the
excalamation point and Disk 1 does not.
I think I just need to remove the mirror and reestablish it using the "good"
mirror on Disk 1, but had the same concerns since the problem drive is Disk 0.
If anyone can answer Graham's question, I think it will also answer mine.

Thanks,

Mike


"Graham Coffer" wrote:

> Hello folks. Hope everyone is well.
> We are running win2003 standard SP1 with 2 x 36gb SCSI dynamic mirrored
> disks.
> Both the system C: and data D: paritions are mirrored over both disks, which
> was done using the disk management mmc.
> The primary drive, Drive 0 has now failed. (online,errors is the status but
> the system wont boot to it)
> We are having to boot to the "secondary plex" option from the startup menu.
>
> Can anyone tell me the procedure to use in order to replace the failed
> primary drive?
> If it was the mirrored disk I would just break the mirror and replace the
> drive but I have a feeling it's more complex than that as it's drive 0 thats
> failed.
> any help greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Graham Coffer
> Network Admin
> whyte and mackay
>
>
>