Anyone ever Ghost a SCSI disk?

[busmaster11]

I need to image a SCSI disk off of a Compaq Proliant DL360 G2 with a Smart Array 5i SCSI controller... Can't find DOS drivers anywhere - tons of these boot-rom paqs and *NIX drivers and such, but nothing that will let me squeeze DOS drivers onto a floppy to ghost from.. Anyone with any experience?

TIA

 

[corkyg]

Acronis True Image 9 will auto create you a bootable CD and that will let you clone your SCSI drive. BTW - it sees SATA drives as SCSI drives.

 

[busmaster11]

Hmmm.. thats not an option... Thanks though.

 

[ottothecow]

Have you tried the Ultimate Boot CD? It uses miniature linux for many of its applications (and FreeDOS for the rest) and you would probobly be able to use Ranish Partition Manager to copy disks. It boots a tiny linux and has support for a LOT of drives. There are also lots of other disk tools and the ability to add modules.

If that doesnt work, the same people made a UBCD Windows version. If you go to their website, you have to build it yourself from a windows CD which is time consuming but if you already HAVE a windows SP1 disk, it is perfectly legal to download a torrent of the precompiled CD from mininova. This disk is basically a windows live-cd and will allow you to run whatever windows drivers and software to clone the disks.

 

[redbeard1]

Norton Corporate Ghost, will see most scsi drives natively, and works well for the most part. Consumer Ghost can be fussier. However, Symantec states that Ghost does not officially support cloning drives in a raid. If you get it to work, fine. If it doesn't work, don't call them.

That said, my experience has been fairly good using Ghost on scsi raid arrays, though I don't image them. I usually clone it to another drive.

 

[busmaster11]

Originally posted by: redbeard1
Norton Corporate Ghost, will see most scsi drives natively, and works well for the most part. Consumer Ghost can be fussier. However, Symantec states that Ghost does not officially support cloning drives in a raid. If you get it to work, fine. If it doesn't work, don't call them.

That said, my experience has been fairly good using Ghost on scsi raid arrays, though I don't image them. I usually clone it to another drive.

You mean a Symantec Ghost boot disk will see SCSI drives without squeezing aspi drivers on it? We're on ver 7.5

TIA

 

[redbeard1]

When I used to use 7.0 and 7.5, I just copied Ghost.exe to a bootable floppy, and used it like that. I tried that with 8.0 and found that the executable size did not allow for both the necessary boot files and the executable.

We use 8.0 now, but another tech set it up so that it boots from a cd. So I'm not sure if he told it to add aspi drivers or not.