Ron Burnett wrote: >Greetings from a cold winter's day down under: Likewise, from a nice summer's day in Seattle... :-) >Last Wednesday, round about 5:30 a.m., we suffered our >fourth disk failure. With MirrorDisk/iX, the system stayed >up--users didn't even know it happened. I will use Ron's success story as another opportunity to solict help from all MirrorDisk/iX users who will be at HP World - Anaheim, to politely agitate for HP to finish that last little important thing they left out when they released the current version; i.e.: The ability to mirror the MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET. I'll admit that having a disc in the <long name> blow up is not quite as bad as having a non-mirrored disc in a user vol go down; *providing*: You have a current SLT with *all* HP and other files that are on the volume; *AND* you have enough space on the remaining spindles to do an install of the <long name>..... We have both, so in theory we could be back online pretty quick.... But there is still unplanned down time, and we would still have to do an install... Ugly... As I said at the IPROF-96 Management Roundtable, MirrorDisk/iX is a great product; and it would fill the last noticeable hole to be able to mirror the <long name>. ..... SIDEBAR: We named our two non-system volumes USER and BACKUP. I wonder if someday we will have an option to call the <long name> just SYSTEM or etc... .... obviously this is a long way from the top of any "must have" enhancement list...... but.... sigh..... Ken "Haven't lost a <long name> spindle.... yet" Sletten