mirror problems & request for help

since there was no reply I thought I'd follow up

We re-initialized the 2nd drive, re-setup the dos partion, and this time the
mirroring worked!

- Jenna


"j d" <j d@none.org> wrote in message
news:quDJd.351$NQ2.192@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com...
> Well, we had only moderate success with a failed drive replacement, can
> someone help?
>
> We:
> * successfully installed the new drive and set the SCSI ID to
> * we successfully imaged the good drive's dos partition onto the new drive
> so it would be bootable
> * we successfully created 2 new NW partitions that match the size of the
> good drive on the new drive
> * we successfully mirrored partition 0x10 (existing partition 0x10
> mirrored to partion 0x17 which "became" 0x10)
> but
> * unsuccessful in mirroring partition 0x0E.
>
> Request for help to figure out why 0x0E isn't mirroring?
>
> * We went through nwconfig and selected the available partition (which was
> 0x14, an exact match in size). Instead of getting the expected "out of
> sync" and resynching messages, the partition just now says "in Sync" but
> is not mirrored.
>
> * the partition on the new drive should have become 0x0E, but instead
> became 0x12 - is that just a symptom of things not working or a helpful
> note?
>
> * We deleted the partition on the new drive and repeated the process, only
> to have the same results. Tried again, mirroring the other partition
> first, but same problem showed up.
>
> * note: groupwise and sys volumes are on both partitions, not ideal I know
> but this is a legacy server
>
>
>