Right this is a problem that has occured for the second tiome with me.
The first time occured on a custom/home built built server using IDE disks, this time it is occuring on a HP Proliant server on SATA disks.
Instead of using any on-board RAID controllers, I am just mirroring using the built in facilities within SBS2003 (R2 SP2) across the two disks with the RAID controller disabled
I am testing the mirrorings functionality simply by disconnecting one of the hard drives to simulate failure. When Disk 0 is connected on its own, it boots up fine and disk management reports a failed redundancy and missing disk as expected.
When Disk 1 is connected on its own, it fails to boot indicating that ntldr is missing and we should press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart.
When I boot up Disk 0 again and remove the mirroring, shut down, reconnect disk 1 and import the foreign disk and assign drive letters, all of the system files on the mirror are identical and present, so I am confused as to why I cannot boot the mirror.
NB: The main reason I am not using the hardware mirror is that I dont have a HP USB floppy drive and the server does not have a floppy controller which makes installing the raid drivers impossible (using a generic usb floppy drive just will not work, it is a known issue with HP Proliants apparantly.
Slightly related, had I been able to utilise the hardware raid, if I took the disks to another identical system, would they just plug in and work and boot up or would I have to configure the RAID each time? I have only ever used Software RAID, so I am unsure.
Cheers for any help guys
The first time occured on a custom/home built built server using IDE disks, this time it is occuring on a HP Proliant server on SATA disks.
Instead of using any on-board RAID controllers, I am just mirroring using the built in facilities within SBS2003 (R2 SP2) across the two disks with the RAID controller disabled
I am testing the mirrorings functionality simply by disconnecting one of the hard drives to simulate failure. When Disk 0 is connected on its own, it boots up fine and disk management reports a failed redundancy and missing disk as expected.
When Disk 1 is connected on its own, it fails to boot indicating that ntldr is missing and we should press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart.
When I boot up Disk 0 again and remove the mirroring, shut down, reconnect disk 1 and import the foreign disk and assign drive letters, all of the system files on the mirror are identical and present, so I am confused as to why I cannot boot the mirror.
NB: The main reason I am not using the hardware mirror is that I dont have a HP USB floppy drive and the server does not have a floppy controller which makes installing the raid drivers impossible (using a generic usb floppy drive just will not work, it is a known issue with HP Proliants apparantly.
Slightly related, had I been able to utilise the hardware raid, if I took the disks to another identical system, would they just plug in and work and boot up or would I have to configure the RAID each time? I have only ever used Software RAID, so I am unsure.
Cheers for any help guys