Re: ADS 5i Controller
From: Ian Forbes (ianforbes1_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 02/01/04
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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:03:27 -0500
Do you guys know of any ADS dedicated newsgroups/forums? It'd be nice. Btw,
there's an ADS webcast coming up on Tuesday Feb 3
-Ian
"Brian Hatch" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:10823837-BEA6-4902-AAC7-DF4755174E8C@microsoft.com...
> Ok....I burned a Premier support call on this so everyone that is having
this problem can thank me. Here is the fix that is not contained in Technet
as of yet, they are notes from another tech at MS, and yes it does work for
my 5i controller.
> While I did not have [IBM_disk...] I did have [BM_disk...] which seems to
work just fine.
>
> Brian Hatch
>
> <---Begin Text--->
> For workaround,
> 1. Copy the storport.sys from your windows\system32\drivers to Program
Files\Microsoft ADS\nbs\repository\Windows (this is the ADS repository)
> 2. Modify the Program Files\Microsoft
ADS\nbs\repository\DeploymentAgent\ntbm.inf. Find the [IBM_DISK.CopyFiles]
section, and add the storport.sys to the file list.
> After the change, the [IBM_DISK.CopyFiles] section should be like:
> [IBM_DISK.CopyFiles]
> atapi.sys
> disk.sys
> partmgr.sys
> ftdisk.sys
> scsiport.sys
> classpnp.sys
> fs_rec.sys
> ntfs.sys
> fastfat.sys
> mountmgr.sys
> storport.sys
>
> Best regards,
> John
>
> Enterprise Platforms Support
> <---End Text--->
>
>
> ----- Mark wrote: -----
>
> Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but...
>
> I have found a solution using HP servers that allows me to deploy an
image
> to a server with either a Smart Array 532 or 5i Controller.
>
> Here's what I did:
> 1) Created a new folder with my sysprep folder that gets copied to
the
> device labeled "drivers\storage"
>
> 2) I downloaded the appropriate support pack from HP
>
> 3) extracted the files from the support pack and copied the following
to the
> folder I created in step 1
> *.cat, *.dll, *.sys, *.inf
> NOTE: You'll need to look in device manager to get the appropriate
driver
> used for your storage controller. In my case, there were (2)
separate
> drivers within the support pack to choose from.
>
> 4) open the drivers .inf file and look for the PNP ID of the driver
eg. for
> a 5i its: PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B178&SUBSYS_40800E11
> NOTE: make sure to include the SUBSYS part as well.
>
> 5) create a new section in your sysprep.inf file labled
> "[SysprepMassStorage]" and copy the string from step 4 to the first
line
> underneath eg. mine looks like:
>
PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B178&SUBSYS_40800E11="c:\sysprep\drivers\storage\cpqcissm.i
> nf"
>
PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_B178&SUBSYS_40820E11="c:\sysprep\drivers\storage\cpqcissm.i
> nf"
> NOTE: The part after the "=" points to the .inf file for the driver
were it
> is located on the device you are capturing the image from. I put
mine in
> the sysprep folder so that it would be deleted after I deploy the
image.
> Also notice the importance of including the SUBSYS part of the PNP
ID. It
> failed for me when I didn't include it. One line is for a Smart
Array 5i
> and the other for a 532 Storage Controller.
>
> 6) capture and deploy the image.
>
> Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I was having a
terrible
> time deploying an image to multiple devices myself.
>
> Mark
>
> "Brian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:899F3B5C-05FB-40DA-9302-A3EE69D33814@microsoft.com...
> > Has anyone ever found a solution to this? I have tried the KB
article but
> still nothing.
> >> Brian
> >> ----- Ethan H. wrote: -----
> >> We are able to capture an image successfully. However, when
deploying
> the image we get a message that we cannot access the boot partition
and the
> image deployment fails. We have copied the drivers for the Smart
Array 5i
> into the User\PreSystem, User\PostSystem and the Windows folder. The
exact
> message is as follows: "The requested device/partition is
in-accessible. The
> device/partition could be corrupt or invalid."
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
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