Converting software mirror into hardware mirror

[Noid]

At a client of mine, the former administrator left me a server with a software mirror. Allthough the hardware supports a hardware mirror. Because of the lack of resources, the server is verry slow. alot of CPU power is used for the software array. I would like to turn on the hardware array. (Its a windows 2003 SBS server.)

Trying so, i noticed this is not so easy. How do I make sure the systems boots from the hardware aray? The disks remain on the same controller.

I broke the mirror, rebooted, enable the raid function, configure the mirror, and copy one disk to the other. but how do i make windows boot from that array. It wont at this stage :s. (I'm on a testing envirenment offcourse). I also made sure i installed the latest drivers for the controler. Windows boots, but when it moves from the dos view to the windows view it results in a blue screen with inaccessible boot device.

Did anyone have any luck trying this?

driver for the controler is adaptec hostraid U320

Edited June 15, 2005 by Noid

[CrescendoBEAt]

hi

first the mirror always allow to boot from RAID 1, so if u config everything, shouldn't face a problem, but so said u copy one disk to another manually?

if u did it, u should let RAID do that.

by the way check the guide of the RAID controller.

it should work if u update the driver.

[Noid]

I use the raid controler to create the hardware mirror. there's an option to copy 1 disk to the other.

[CrescendoBEAt]

importante is u shouldn't copy the data to the 2nd disk. let the controller to that with it's process. config it on its driver or with jumper settings.