My Novell 3.12 server crashed last night. When the server came back the mirror was broken and one drive was out of sync ( I beleive the primary drive ID 0) I was unable to resync the mirror and I am wondering if I should break the mirror set and try to insert it again. Or is the drive dead and if so, Can I simply unplug the drive and boot to the mirrored drive that looks okay inside of INSTALL. It may be booting to that drive now but how can I tell? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Booting to a mirrored drive
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It should be telling you which drive, by ID, is out of SYNC. Since SCSI drives boot from the lowest SCSI ID#, you could determine which drive is the problem, the primary or secondary.
If its the Primary thats bad, and you want to boot from the secondary, when you setup the Server, did you take the time to create a bootable DOS Partition and copy all NetWare related files to both drives... Of which both would be capable of booting and launching the NetWare Server???
If so, great, if not... I would start looking for your latest tape backup.
Good Luck!
If its the Primary thats bad, and you want to boot from the secondary, when you setup the Server, did you take the time to create a bootable DOS Partition and copy all NetWare related files to both drives... Of which both would be capable of booting and launching the NetWare Server???
If so, great, if not... I would start looking for your latest tape backup.
Good Luck!
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