Meridian Mail Disk Shadowing procedure

[viper222]

I have been given the wonderful task of installing two drives for disk shadowing, but have no documentation. Help or documentation is GREEAATLY appreciated. There is currently (1) tape drive and two other drives installed. One is an older drive with the ugly black peice and led on the front and another seagate SCSI drive. When you cold boot the MMail it sees SCSI ID 0 as a Seagate drive and SCSI ID 1 as the tape drive. I then set the two new drives to address 2 with the jumpers and slid one drive above the seagate drive and the other drive above the older style drive. The system boots the exact same way as before, no difference in the boot or when you look under disk maintenance. The Power LED on the new drives do light up when first turned on. Any ideas, I read somewhere that there is jumper settings on the backplane. Thanks for any help.

 

[PERRYPJ]

JUST A PIECE OF ADVICE, I WON'T TOUCH IT UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROCEDURE TO INSTALL THE DISK WHICH ARE IN THE MERIDIAN MAIL NTP'S. THERE IS NO WAY I COULD HAVE ENOUGH TIME OR SPACE ON THIS FORUM TO EVEN START TO LEAD YOU THROUGH THE PROCEDURE.

OLD ROLMEN WORKING ON NORTELS

 

[viper222]

OK, Thanks, I will try to find the NTP for that procedure. Thank you.

 

[jjmcc2]

What type of switch are you working on. I added disk shadow to OPtion 81 with no problem.

 

[viper222]

This is an Option 81.

 

[jjmcc2]

Ok, look at the backplane of where the mail system is located. (This will be on the back side of the backplane).
You will see dip switches SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, and SW5, on my system it is labeled as to what position they need to be in for disk shadow.
FOR SHADOW in a single node system

SW1 & SW3 ALL OFF

SW2 & SW4 ALL ON

SW5 ALL ON

I can send you the NTP PDF file if you would like.

 

[viper222]

Thanks so much for the info. If you could I would love to have that NTP for reference. My email is viper22297@earthlink.net. Many thanks for your help so far.

 

[viper222]

jjmcc2, That worked perfectly. All I had to do is verify the jumpers on the HD and set the Switches on the backplane, tell it to boot off of the disk 0, then in disk maint syncronize them. Having the right books do it all of the time. Thank you so much for your help.