mirrored drives issue/question

[paladin256]

A windows server 2003 r2 has just become my responability. It has 4 drives in it with drive 1 and 3 being a windows mirror sharing drive letter D. Drive D is now reporting read and write errors. How do I tell which drive has the issue when both drives are identical?


Thanks in advance.

 

[58sniper]

The vendor, such as Dell, usually has an application that monitors things like this and can give more info. With Dell, it's OpenManage.

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[Curler]

In some cases the RAID 1 setup might also be done through the hardware controller directly - our Adaptec for example. In our case we can interact with the controller before the operating system boots to see what is happening and replace drives if necessary.

As too much information, we had a controller used for a RAID 1 configuration fail two weeks ago so that suddenly the system couldn't find any boot media. Accessing the controller showed it could not see any drives. Replaced the controller with an identical unit after copying the drives as a precaution and got back into business.

And controllers never fail. Duplexing anyone?

 

[TheLad]

Are there any errors in the Event Viewer relating to a drive number (bear in mind that the drives maybe numbered 0-3 and not 1-4)

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