Re: Can't access the SAN drives

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It's working now. I had to map the server drives and volumes on the san but
when i try to mirror the local drives with the san drives i get an error
message in Logical disk manager.

It says, Logical disk manager could not update the boot file for any boot
file for any boot partition on the target disk. Verify your arcpath listings
in the boot.ini or through the bootcfg.exe utility. Can someone please tell
me how to fix this error?

Thanks,
Lake

"Greg Page" wrote:

> There is most likely an incorrect setting on the card. The OS will only see
> what the card and driver tell it is there. If it works in one config, you
> make a change on the card and then the OS cannot see the drives, well, the
> issue is the card since that is what changed.
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> | I should say that i disable the fiber card from booting up but did not
> | totally disable it on the server. I am bit new with this SAN technology
> but
> | from what i understand is the reason for disabling the fiber card from
> | booting up is because it is using LUN 0 and it would conflict with the
> local
> | SCSI drives. Is there a better way of doing this?
> |
> | "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" wrote:
> |
> | > "Lake" <Lake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | > news:FE53D2DA-43E1-4460-8E2F-F33E47A9EB5B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > >I have an IBM server that has a QLogic QLA2340 card installed. It's
> | > >connected
> | > > to a Compellent SAN running Windows 2003 server. I can boot off the
> SAN
> | > > using > this card and it works fine. However, when i disabled the
> QLogic
> | > > card and
> | > > boot locally i can't find the drives that i mapped to the fiber card.
> | >
> | > OK, I must be missing something. If you disable the fiber card, it
> makes
> | > perfect sense that you can't access the LUNs on the array.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Russ Kaufmann
> | >
> | > MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> | > http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Website
> | > http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp - Blog
> | >
> | >
> | >
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