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| Title: | Windows NT |
| Notice: | See note 15.0 for HCL location |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN .com::FOLEY |
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| Created: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6086 |
| Total number of notes: | 31449 |
5673.0. "Booting off mirrored disk on Mylex controller" by DIBDIB::DBATES (Time for a note) Tue Feb 11 1997 04:26
I have a Prioris NT 3.51 SP5 system with a DAC960 3 port Mylex
raid controller.
The first two disks on the first port of the Mylex controller are
mirrored using NT. The system works ok at the moment.
I am trying to prove that the system will still boot if the fist disk in the
mirror were to fail.
To do this I have removed the first disk and then tried to boot form the mirrored drive,
but have not had any success so far.
The working Boot.ini on the primary disk looks like this
Multi(0)Disk(0)rdisk(0)Partition(1)\WINNT35="Windows NT"
I have tried using this Boot.ini on a floppy disk, but get back the error that
NTOSKRNL.EXE is missing or corrupt. If I change rdisk to (1), I get an error
that there is a hardware configuration problem. If I move the mirrored disk to the
fisrt slot, the system hangs when reading the floppy.
Does anyone know what I should do to be able to boot of a mirrored drive on a Mylex
controller please?
Many thanks
David
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| 5673.1 | | SUTRA::16.36.2.177::Bats | Speeding, speeding, I'm always speeding | Mon Mar 03 1997 12:17 | 14 |
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If you look under the SCSIport part in the registry you'll
see that the Mylex actually numbers the Logical Raid volumes
starting from 8!
I don't know which of the two you'll have to change
(rdisk or disk) but if the mirror is on the second RAID volume
it would be something like:
Multi(0)Disk(9)rdisk(0)Partition(1)\WINNT35
or
Multi(0)Disk(0)rdisk(9)Partition(1)\WINNT35
Pjotrr
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