Replacing SCSI disk drive

[cpawtc]

I have a mirrored pair of SCSI drives on my Netware 4.11 file server. One of the drives failed. I was able to find the exact same drive to replace the failed drive with. It has been years since I built this file server. My plan was to down the server, replace the failed drive and reboot the server. The drives should automatically remirror. Is this all that is necessary or are there other things that I need to do? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

wtc

 

[TheLad]

Are the drives hardware mirrored (via a RAID card) or Software mirrored (via NetWare)?

-----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
-----------------------------------------------------

 

[terry712]

if hardware then - dont bother downing server - remove knackered one - slap in new one out - finish cofffee

if software mirror - been a while
i will not auto remirror - i doesnt have any partitions on it - you will nedd to create a partition on it of equal size and then you can remirror
remember if using software mirroring of this way the dos partition is not mirrored - so you will need to manual bring these up to date

if it is software mirroring - i strongly suggest buying an array controller - software mirroring is evil

 

[cpawtc]

The drives are software mirrored via Netware. This server has been around awhile. It's a Pentium I 233, it has been running and running with no problems.

 

[TheLad]

Of course it has, it's a NetWare server lol. They always do.

Try looking at the following TID, as always proceed with caution:

http://support.novell.com/techcente...rnalId=10011974html&sliceId=&dialogID=2571729

-----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
-----------------------------------------------------

 

[iolair]

Warning! If the drives are mirrored via Netware, and you lose the first disk (boot disk), when you reboot, you will not be able to bring the system up until you create a dos bootable partition on the replaced drive. I found this out the hard way. Make a dos bootable disk and put as much of the C:\NWSERVER directory as you can on the floppy. Especially server.exe, if at all possible. Of course, I believe that is exactly what TheLad's post refers to.



Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT