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  • 1.  Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 25, 2011 01:17 AM

    I'm trying to create an image of an old (IBM DDRS-34560 4560MB) Scsi.  Ghost can see the drive but its grayed out and won't allow me to select it as a source drive.

    I've pluged my SCSI drive to AcerPower FV computer throgh Adaptec ava-2904 PCI card adapter. I've made a WinPe boot disk and attached the adapter driver (Windows vista driver).

     

    Please can you help me.



  • 2.  RE: Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 25, 2011 09:07 AM

    Does your AcerPower FV have an operating system installed, and if so, is the O/S able to access the SCSI hard disk?  If it can, and a drive letter is assigned, then at least you can assume that the hardware configuration is OK.  The power on self test should also indicate whether the IRQ of the SCSI controller is mapped - unless the controller is clever enough to find/share an available hardware interrupt.

    If you cannot see the drive from Windows (or whatever your O/S is), is the LUN set on the SCSI drive, and is the drive terminated, or is there a bus terminator at the drive end of the SCSI cable, as well as at the controller end?

    What version of Ghost are you using?



  • 3.  RE: Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 26, 2011 04:31 AM

    Does your AcerPower FV have an operating system installed

    Yes. it works on windows Xp professional SP3

    is the O/S able to access the SCSI hard disk?

    Well, i only can see the drive on Disk Management Console but it appears as unknown.

    is the LUN set on the SCSI drive, and is the drive terminated, or is there a bus terminator at the drive end of the SCSI cable, as well as at the controller end?

    Well, i am afraid that i don't know the answer, but from what i see is the drive has a jumber on the "SCSI Termination ON"

    What version of Ghost are you using?

    I am using the Symantec Ghost Solution Suite v2.5

    By the way, The drive that i need to backup has solaris 7 installed to it. and i have another one works with SunOS 4. so i wonder if that Ghost can not support those operating system file system.

     

     

     

     


  • 4.  RE: Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 26, 2011 09:19 AM

    I know very little about Unix filesystems, but if I recall correctly, there is support for the ext3 filesystem that Linux offers.  

    Perhaps another forum member can give a definitive answer regarding the specific disk formats used by your  Solaris and SunOS systems.



  • 5.  RE: Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 27, 2011 06:50 AM

    Thanks EdT.

    Actually i don't really know myself what filesystem my drive use. But maybe its UFS.

    So the question is there any support for UFS or EX3 filesystem?



  • 6.  RE: Can't make an image(Ghost) of an old Scsi drive

    Posted Dec 27, 2011 10:05 AM

    Ghost does not support UFS file system .It supports FAT 16/32,NTFS ,EXT 2/3 .

    The drive not getting recognized under WINPE is not related to the compatibility issue.Add storage drivers under WINPE for the SCSI storage controller .

    Ghost should still allow you to create a sector image as the file system is not supported.

    The switches -ID ,-IR , -IA could be used.Please refer to the following document for more info,

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH130961