I am trying to setup mirroring under Netware 4.11. I have 1 18 gig and 2 36 gig scsi drives. I have created a duplicate DOS partition on one of the 36 gig drives and created a netware partition that exactly duplicate the netware partition on the primary drive. The starting and ending sectors, partition size and hotswap numbers are all the same. I enter the install utility and select device 0 {not mirrored). I press INS to to add a partition to device 0. I select device 1 to add to device 0 and it tells me that original partition is larger than the selected partition and won't allow me to mirror the partitions. The partitions are exactly alike. What do I do now?

Could you clarify a bit? which is the original? Better if you list device 0, 1, (and 2?) with thier partitions.... "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON

The original is device 0 and is 18 gigs with a 23.5 gig dos partition and a netware partition beginning on cylinder 3 and ending on cylinder 2230. It contains netware volumes sys and vol1. The netware partition is 17447 megabytes. device 1 is 36 gig which is a duplicate of device 0 with a 23.5 gig dos partition and a matching netware partition. It contains no volumes and it is 17447 megabytes. The rest of the drive is unpartitioned space. device 2 is 36 gig blank disk. I want to mirror device 1 to device 0 so that they become identical. I then want to remove device 0 and mirror device 2 to device 1 so I always have a backup drive.

The DOS partition should be 23.5 megs not gigs.

hi - i found this on the Novell website (technical information doc 10026455). Hope it helps: fact Novell NetWare 4.11 symptom When trying to mirror 2 hard drive of the same size will get error that the hard drives are not the same size. The number of data blocks on both hard drives sre identical. cause One hard drive had been low level formatted using Address Translation=ON and the other hard drive had been low level formatted using Address Translation=OFF fix Use the same type of low level format for each drive. document Document Title: When trying to mirror 2 hard drive of the same size will get error that the hard drives are not the same size. Document ID: 10026455 Solution ID: 1.0.54664728.2532446 Creation Date: 09Feb2000 Modified Date: 12Nov2002 Novell Product Class: NetWare "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON

Thank you, I will give it a try.