WIN Nt and Software Mirror problem

[rpasell]

We had one of the hard drives on our print server take a dump. It was set up as a software mirror, so we still have the server and it runs. I pulled the old hard drive, and replaced it with a new one. The SCSI controller recognizes the drive, but NT does not. I moved the good drive to ID 0, and put the new one on ID 1. Disk administrator still shows the good disk in slot Disk 1, and nothing in slot Disk 0. When I start disk administrator I get the following error 'Disk administrator has determined that one or more disks have been removed from your computer since disk Administrator was last run, or that one or more hard disks are offline. Configuration information about the mising disk will be retained'. Any ideas on why NT won't recognize the drive, and how I can fix it? Do I need to rejumper the drives? If so, why does the SCSI controller see the drive OK?

 

[bsobel]

Your replacing the mirror, so you need to go in and first break the existing mirror. Once you do that NT should let you forget the bad drive and start seeing the new drive. At that point you just create a new mirror set and let NT mirror the current working drive to the new one.

Bill

 

[rpasell]

Disk Administrator says the mirrors on both partitions of the good drive already say [BROKEN].

 

[bsobel]

Right, but thats because NT still thinks the drive is part of a mirror (and hence knows the mirror is broken). You need to convert the drive back to a 'normal' drive, and then just create a new mirror set.

Bill

 

[rpasell]

Well, that worked sort of. The two partitions are now 'normal', but NT still doesn't see the drive, I'm going to play with the jumpers.