I just did such a thing. If you are upgrading a software RAID 1 system to
Win2K, the mirror is preserved. According to MS documentation, a software
mirror cannot be created on basic disks. Which means that if you brake the
mirror before the upgrade (that is what I did to have a backup image just in
case), the only way to create it on Win2K machine is to convert disk to dynamic.
On my second machine with mirrored disks I did an upgrade without braking a
mirror. The drives are still showing up as mirrored on basic disks after the
upgrade. According to the "Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting" chapter of a
Win2K Resource Kit:
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You can perform the following tasks only on a basic disk:
Create and delete primary and extended partitions.
Create and delete logical drives within an extended partition.
Format a partition and mark it as active.
Delete volume, striped, mirror, or stripe sets with parity.
Break a mirror from a mirror set.
Repair failed legacy FT volumes such as mirror sets or stripe sets with
parity.
*** End quote *****
Andrey Kalinin
Senior LAN Engineer
S&P
"Jan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/10/2001 04:47:04 PM
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Subject: Mirro Set Query
I posted this elsewhere with no replies - maybe someone knows? Thanks
A user wrote (Windows 2000 /May 2001 pg. 21) that "If your Windows NT
Server 4.0 systems have mirrored drives, be aware of the following
upgrade gotcha. We have several servers running NT Server 4.0, and we
want to upgrade them to Windows 2000 Server. However, each server has at
least one pair of mirrored drives, and Win2K Server doesn't support this
configuration. To maintain our infrastructure, we must migrate to Win2K
Advanced Server at several times the price of the migration to Win2K
Server."
I can not find any mention of this at MS site or product doc. We want to
set up our W2K Servers with 2 mirror sets (i.e. 4 drives total one set
using 2 drives for "C" and one set using 2 drives for "d". Can this be
done with W2K Server or do we need advanced server? Thanks!
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