Question: Disk Mirroring preceding RAID?

Back in '90. I tried the Novell NETWARE approach to mirroring, but was unable to make it work. That was due to the fact that the ADAPTEC controller I was using didn't really work correctly at the alternate address with the driver they provided for that purpose. I quickly abandoned it, in favor of the software RAID offered by NT. It's theoretically quite solid, but I've never used it myself. The NT (software) approach seems more solid. RAID is always done in software to greater or lesser extent. The RISC processors commonly used on "RAID-5-capable" controllers is really the same thing as it really doesn't matter who runs the software. Unfortunately, under NT4, there were problems with inter-process communication before SP3. That would make anybody suspicious. My NT server was emulating the NETWARE server, yet had the advantage of the software compression offered by NT and the built-in backup (not the best imaginable, but the best there is <sigh>) AND it emulates the NETWARE server so I can use it from DOS workstations. regards, Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Sieler" &lt;ss(a)allegro.com&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:53 AM Subject: Question: Disk Mirroring preceding RAID?