Mirror failed, bad blocks

[tahoe2]

Hello all!
Win 2k SP4, all current critical updates. RAID 1, mounted volume on the C drive.

I came in a couple days ago, and found the event log filled with errors about bad blocks on Disk 1, and the mirror was broken. I tried to reestablish, but that worked for exactly 15 seconds before it broke again. a few of the bad blocks were successfully reassigned, but one was not.

This may be a stupid question, but can I just reformat Disk 1, then re-establish the mirror?

If not, what do I need to do?

Thanks!
Corie

 

[aftertaf]

reformat..
or replace.
but a broken mirror can be repaired, avoiding you the standard 7 years bad luck

Aftertaf
if its not broken, fix it anyway - with luck you might break it and have an excuse

 

[tahoe2]

Cool! I'll format tomorrow morning to see if I can avoid the 7 year sentence...


Thanks,
Corie

 

[tahoe2]

Well, no luck. I started the format and when it was at 11% after 4 hours, I knew it wouldn't work. So much for that.
At least it's still under warranty, so I shipped it off.

At this point, I'm running off a single disk, and doing full backups every night. Once the new hard drive arrives, I'll install and recreate the mirror.

Corie

 

[Dmasch]

how did you get the machine to boot up off the other mirrored disk. I am having similar problems with my first disk but I can not figure out how to make my server run off the other mirrored disk. Can you tell me the steps you took to accomplish this?

 

[tahoe2]

I have my startup options set to display all OS's (the mirror is listed here) for 3 seconds before starting the default OS, in case of something like this.

Try this: Start the server, hit F-8 for other startup options, choose safe mode, then I believe you should get a choice of which OS and profile you want. Once the server starts, set the proper OS to start.

Hope this helps,
Corie

 

[moorethan]

you need to edit the boot.ini file and correct the arc path.

Do a search for "arc path" at microsoft

here a couple of starters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130921/EN-US/#kb2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119467/EN-US/