Ghosting / Mirroring SCSI to IDE! Need help! [computer gurus] [boot ini]
Q: I have tried many times to a SCSI hard drive on an IDE hard disk mirror without success. I sold it to the board of computer gurus and hopefully someone can shed light on my dilemma.
Ive used the Norton Ghost 6.0 disk and partition to copy without success. The results of my research resulted in an identical IDE hard disk as SCSI, exact size, but not start, well, bootable Up boot.ini, but then hangs. But I was able to mirror a SCSI hd to another SCSI HD w / o problems. I know that one of the reasons for the error or the transfer is unsuccessful MBR to do to a disk geometry differences between IDE and SCSI drive.
Have nobody was successful in replicating / mirroring a SCSI HD on an IDE HD?
Any insight or help appreciated.
Setup:
SCSI: 27Gb in St. Joseph RAID 5 array with 2 partitions, 25GB and 4 GB primary secondary
IDE: 30GB hard drive
scope: An attempt at the mirror SCSI RAID-5 array on a single IDE hard drive.
thanks in advance!
FunkMan
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Re:Or if that doesn't work, you may need to change the boot.ini so it boots from:
scsi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Some description of the OS here"
so it boots from the "second SCSI controller".
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Re:You may need to change the Boot order in the BIOS of your PC so it checks the IDE before the SCSI. You should be able to see this in the boot sequence where it should poll for the IDE devices then poll for the SCSI devices afterwards.
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Re:Zetter,
I'm trying to mirror a windows NT 4.0 enterprise server from a 4GB Raid 5 boot partition to a 20GB IDE hard drive attached to a promise fastrack 66 ide raid card. As far as the promise card goes, it is treated as a SCSI device w/ respect to the bios and o/s. So, I don't think I would have to change the boot.ini to reflect the boot drive/partition.
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>Which OS are you trying to copy?
>
>If you're doing WinNT/2000, you will need to edit the boot.ini file to tell it to boot from a >SCSI or IDE device.
>
>eg, for IDE (primary ide, first partition)
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Some description of the OS here"
>or for SCSI and some UDMA controllers (SCSI ID 0, first partition)
>scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Some description of the OS here"
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Re:I don't know about TT, but with NG, you can restore the image to a partition rather than to a disk which may be what you're after.
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Re:I was having a similar problem with adaptec take two.
Drive C was 9 GB and I resized the partition to 4 GB's. When I attempted to restore drive C (2 GB of data), Adaptec Take Two messed all my partitions up, it was trying to resize the new partition to its original size, 9 GB.
Someone told me that I wouldn't have this problem with Norton Ghost, but I never tried it.
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Re:Which OS are you trying to copy?
If you're doing WinNT/2000, you will need to edit the boot.ini file to tell it to boot from a SCSI or IDE device.
eg, for IDE (primary ide, first partition)
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Some description of the OS here"
or for SCSI and some UDMA controllers (SCSI ID 0, first partition)
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Some description of the OS here"
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