Ghosting / Mirroring from SCSI to IDE ! Need help!

[cfunk]

I have tried many times to mirror from a SCSI hard drive to an IDE hard drive without success. I'm bumping this up to the board of computer gurus and hopefully someone can shed light on my dilemma.

I've used Norton Ghost's 6.0 disk and partition copy w/o success. The outcomes of my trials resulted in an identical IDE hard drive as the SCSI, exact in size, but unbootable, well, bootable up till boot.ini but hangs afterwards. However, I was able to mirror from one SCSI hd to another SCSI hd w/o problems. I know one of the reasons for the error or unsuccessful MBR transfer is do to Drive Geometry differences between an IDE and SCSI drive.

Have anyone had success in replicating/mirroring a scsi hd to an ide hd?

Any insight or help is appreciated.

Setup:
SCSI: 27GB raid 5 array with 2 partitions, 4 GB primary and 25GB secondary
IDE: 30GB hard drive
scope: Trying to mirror the scsi raid 5 array to a single IDE hard drive.

thanks in advance!

FunkMan

 

[zetter]

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"

 

[zetter]

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[Duckers]

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.

 

[zetter]

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.

 

[cfunk]

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.

cFunk in need of help!

>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"

 

[zetter]

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.

 

[zetter]

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".

 

[cfunk]

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