Removing a Drive

[IdahoTech]

Hello All,

I have a small weird problem. I had recently rebuilt 2 of my servers here at the schools. I was going to mirror the drives, but was hesitant because I did not know how.

Well to make a long story short. I installed NW6 into one of the servers with BOTH drives hooked up. Now when I disconnect the second drive that was to be my mirror of the first drive the system boots to a screen saying that it cannot boot due to invalid partition table.

If I hook the other drive back up it works fine. Is there a way to get rid of the other drive so I can disconnect it from the server until I am ready to mirror the drive? Or am I just over a barrel??

Any thoughts or anyone ever run into this.

THanks!!

IdahoTech
'Only two things are infinite - the Universe and human Stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the Universe' Albert Einstein

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[sstoppel]

It sounds like you allocated all of the space on both drives to a single pool and volume, so if they are not both hooked up the partition table knows it is incomplete.

When you mirror a server the best way is a hardware mirror using your RAID card. The second best way is to define two partitions (1 for each drive) of identical size and mirror them using NetWare.

The bad news is that you will likely have to either backup, mirror, and restore or if there is no data on them, wipe the drives and start over.

 

[marvhuffaker]

I'm thinking that the server was actually booting from what you are saying is the second drive. Or at least that is where the DOS partition is at.

boot with a DOS boot floppy and then run fdisk and find out exactly which disk has a DOS partition on it. That should get you going in the right direction at least.

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

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[IdahoTech]

Well thanks for the suggestions.

I booted with the Ultimate Boot CD I have made and went into both Ranish and Free FDisk and both show on the second disk that there is no partition or dos partition on that second disk.

Now I am stumped. The proper DOS Partition is on the right drive and the second drive shows up blank. So what to do next???

Thanks again for the fast replys!!)

IdahoTech
'Only two things are infinite - the Universe and human Stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the Universe' Albert Einstein

http://www.sd60.k12.id.us

 

[IdahoTech]

Quick Question though. If I run out of time will it hurt to leave it that way until next year when I redo all the servers in the district. Supposedly my Boss has been talking with CableOne and they may lay fibre throughout the district for us for pretty cheap!

Just a after thought....

IdahoTech
'Only two things are infinite - the Universe and human Stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the Universe' Albert Einstein

http://www.sd60.k12.id.us

 

[IdahoTech]

Hello Marv and sstoppel,

Well are you ready for this one?!

The system is built on a P4 Architecture. The problem is these are 80 GIG drives. Now the best that I can figure is that when this board was bought about 2 years ago is when system BIOS's had the limitation of the 72 gig hard drive size. Now I have jumpered the drive (WD) for master with 2 jumpers and it boots just fine without the other drive attached!!!!

I need a drink...it is noon somewhere in the world. This is one of those things that if you don't drink or smoke could make you go that way. I don't smoke but drink once in a while, you betcha!

Thanks for the help guys. Something to think about when working on servers that are not that old but are still P4's. Ya know??





IdahoTech
'Only two things are infinite - the Universe and human Stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the Universe' Albert Einstein

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