Disk Mirroring with XP and SCSI drives

I have a HP system with 2 SCSI drives (38Gig) (identical).
Up until now I have used the first for system and apps and the second for
data.
I have just add a largish IDE drive for data so I want to mirror the system
drive with the 2nd SCSI drive.

From readings, XP can't handle disk mirroring (ie SW mirror).
Q1. Why then is it even a greyed out option in disk manager?..Confusing.
Q2. Why did MS not make it available in XP professional? Is it available in
Vista?

I guess that hw mirroring is what is required.
My current controller is Adaptec AIC-7902-Ultra320 SCSI.
I assume that I can't do hw mirroring with it..??
Q4. Can I get a SCSI controller that supports disk mirroring?
--
David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
+61 3 99255318

XP is ok in "mirroring" drives,they even incude it in the software:XCOPY
However,this works only with IDE drives with the two on same IDE cable.
Besides,what you want to do is really a RAID configuration RAID 1 to be
specific,why not get a SCSI RAID controller.....What specifically is greyed
out,
diskmgmt.msc Doesnt mirror the IDE drives anyway,that done in cmd,you might/
could open cmd type:XCOPY /?

"David Jones" wrote:

> I have a HP system with 2 SCSI drives (38Gig) (identical).
> Up until now I have used the first for system and apps and the second for
> data.
> I have just add a largish IDE drive for data so I want to mirror the system
> drive with the 2nd SCSI drive.
>
> From readings, XP can't handle disk mirroring (ie SW mirror).
> Q1. Why then is it even a greyed out option in disk manager?..Confusing.
> Q2. Why did MS not make it available in XP professional? Is it available in
> Vista?
>
> I guess that hw mirroring is what is required.
> My current controller is Adaptec AIC-7902-Ultra320 SCSI.
> I assume that I can't do hw mirroring with it..??
> Q4. Can I get a SCSI controller that supports disk mirroring?
> --
> David Jones
> Senior Lecturer
> School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> RMIT University
> +61 3 99255318

You have an Adaptec card; visit www.adaptec.com for the required scsi raid
controler card - or Promise, Highpoint etc


"David Jones" <davejones@rmit.edu.au.nospamplease> wrote in message
news:6530F2AE-A5B0-42A6-B37C-1C60F64E2BE1@microsoft.com...
> I have a HP system with 2 SCSI drives (38Gig) (identical).
> Up until now I have used the first for system and apps and the second for
> data.
> I have just add a largish IDE drive for data so I want to mirror the
system
> drive with the 2nd SCSI drive.
>
> From readings, XP can't handle disk mirroring (ie SW mirror).
> Q1. Why then is it even a greyed out option in disk manager?..Confusing.
> Q2. Why did MS not make it available in XP professional? Is it available
in
> Vista?
>
> I guess that hw mirroring is what is required.
> My current controller is Adaptec AIC-7902-Ultra320 SCSI.
> I assume that I can't do hw mirroring with it..??
> Q4. Can I get a SCSI controller that supports disk mirroring?
> --
> David Jones
> Senior Lecturer
> School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> RMIT University
> +61 3 99255318

Adaptec does not have a Ultra 320 PCI card w/hardware RAID. PCI-X, yes.
And that's the reason for his question I suppose. But should have provided
more specifics.
--
Jonny
"DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
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> You have an Adaptec card; visit www.adaptec.com for the required scsi raid
> controler card - or Promise, Highpoint etc
>
>
> "David Jones" <davejones@rmit.edu.au.nospamplease> wrote in message
> news:6530F2AE-A5B0-42A6-B37C-1C60F64E2BE1@microsoft.com...
> > I have a HP system with 2 SCSI drives (38Gig) (identical).
> > Up until now I have used the first for system and apps and the second
for
> > data.
> > I have just add a largish IDE drive for data so I want to mirror the
> system
> > drive with the 2nd SCSI drive.
> >
> > From readings, XP can't handle disk mirroring (ie SW mirror).
> > Q1. Why then is it even a greyed out option in disk manager?..Confusing.
> > Q2. Why did MS not make it available in XP professional? Is it
available
> in
> > Vista?
> >
> > I guess that hw mirroring is what is required.
> > My current controller is Adaptec AIC-7902-Ultra320 SCSI.
> > I assume that I can't do hw mirroring with it..??
> > Q4. Can I get a SCSI controller that supports disk mirroring?
> > --
> > David Jones
> > Senior Lecturer
> > School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> > RMIT University
> > +61 3 99255318
>
>