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Chris is right... which is typical of him. (grin) If there's still a question of whether your dead drive was mirrored (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0), from what you've said it sounds like it was mirrored.
As to the startup problem, what is probably happening is that the mirroring software operates "beneath" the operating system and when it encounters the dead drive it throws up its hands and doesn't know what to do and goes no further. Since you haven't described what's used for the mirroring, it's hard to come up with better descriptions. Replacing the dead drive should solve the problem.
As to what happens once there's a new drive in the mix, it's hard to know for sure since we don't know what's doing the mirroring. However, any RAID software/hardware worth anything at all will automagically rebuild the data on the new disk. Once that's done, things should be just as they were before the failure.
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Tripp Woelfel
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