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This section describes what environment and capability is needed to use mirrored disks.

Product environment

Mirrored Disk/iX is designed to work with nonsystem volumes on Hewlett-Packard 900 Series systems with the following restrictions:

  • MPE software release A.30.00 or greater.

  • Disk drives that do not use HP-IB.

  • Mirrored partners must be the same model of disk drive.

  • Mirrored partners should be connected to different device adapter cards.

  • Mirrored Disk/iX does not support mirroring system volumes.

User capabilities

Create volumes (CV) capability is required to use VOLUTIL to initilialize mirrored volumes and to input system commands from the system console to perform split-volume backup.

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