what next after creating a mirror raid.

[leeroy]

ok so i created a mirrored raid with the intel raid option at boot with two maxtors 80gbs t. then i isntalled windows xp naturally. after booting to xp, i see two hard drives (c and d) in my pc and each one has an installtion of winows folders as youd normally get with program files, my docs, etc.so i guess this is successfully mirrored raided right?

i check the bios rom, and it says both are member disks and are normal mirrored status. i then create a blank new text document in root c then i go to my d drive but i dont see a text document in my d drive? i thought my drives were mirrored? so anything i do in c drive should theorectically automatically come up in my d drive right?

[defakto]

that should be the ide of it, yes.

[leeroy]

but what ever i do in c drive it doesnt exactly coem up in d drive as well. maybe i have to restart the pc or something so that it knows that c and d drives have a difference and then it will copy itself over to the d drive?

[Lazn_Work]

You should only see one drive in "My Computer" if you see 2 something did not work right. It sounds like the mirror broke after Windows installed.

==>Lazn

[leeroy]

seriously? these were blank hdds, both have the same data on it after an xp pro spk2 install. thats why i gather they were succesfully mirrored. even when i deleted one member disks the intel raid said raid failure or something and i was able to rebuild it?

[Lazn_Work]

Seriosly I am running RAID 1 on quite a few servers at work, and they all only see 1 drive for the array.

I have never actually done it in XP, but I don't see why it would be any different.

If you have both a C and a D drive they are not in RAID 1.

==>Lazn

[jrbryner]

Yeah, you should only see one drive.