The server seems to be a clone, no brand name on it. Running Server 2003
SP2 Standard Edition



When I look in Disk Management it only shows 1 drive for the system drive.
And says NO under Fault Tolerance. I also looked in Device Manager and it
only shows one drive, in both places called: LSI MegaIDE #00 SCSI Disk
Drive

Last night I opened up the machine and there were 2 drives. Data and the OS
use the same drive(s), I know, bad idea, not my doing. The cables looked
like SATA, so I'm assuming SAS drives? When I boot up the machine and go
into the controller's config utility it shows 2 physical drives, both
online, and one volume. So it looks like hardware mirroring.

But is this normal, for Windows to show hardware mirrored drives as one
physical drive? Seems odd. How do you know if one fails?
There is no "raid manager" in windows for this controller.

On 10/27/2009 9:24 AM, JohnB wrote:

> But is this normal, for Windows to show hardware mirrored drives as
> one physical drive? Seems odd. How do you know if one fails? There
> is no "raid manager" in windows for this controller.

Yes, this is normal. The hardware RAID controller is presenting a
single block device to Windows Logical Disk Manager.

There should be at least a minimalist RAID management and / or
monitoring utility. Check the RAID card vendor's web site. It looks
like you have a MegaRAID from LSI. I personally have used many LSI
cards and all of them have had a management / monitoring utility for
Windows.



Grant. . . .

Device Manager says the controller is a "Intel Embedded Server RAID
Technology".
I'm not having any luck finding a utility for that.
Why do people buy clones, for Servers!!



"Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:hc8bp7$hak$1@newsgroup

> On 10/27/2009 9:24 AM, JohnB wrote:

>> But is this normal, for Windows to show hardware mirrored drives as one
>> physical drive? Seems odd. How do you know if one fails? There is no
>> "raid manager" in windows for this controller.

>
> Yes, this is normal. The hardware RAID controller is presenting a single
> block device to Windows Logical Disk Manager.
>
> There should be at least a minimalist RAID management and / or monitoring
> utility. Check the RAID card vendor's web site. It looks like you have a
> MegaRAID from LSI. I personally have used many LSI cards and all of them
> have had a management / monitoring utility for Windows.
>
>
>
> Grant. . . .

On 10/29/2009 7:34 AM, JohnB wrote:

> Device Manager says the controller is a "Intel Embedded Server RAID
> Technology".
> I'm not having any luck finding a utility for that.
> Why do people buy clones, for Servers!!

Look for (something like) "Intel Storage Matrix".



Grant. . . .