Swap out server HD's w/ new

[Paul Genovese]

Hi:

I have a customer with a Compaq VS 486 32Mb ram prosignia running Netware
3.2

Volume SYS is spanned across 2, 1GB drives, one of the drives is failing
(redirected blocks).

I tried to add another drive but was unable to get dos 6.22 to recognize the
new drive. The SCSI shows the drives upon startup (id 0,1 (original) id 3
(new), but when I run fdisk to create a dos partition on the new drive, I
only see 2 drives. Should dos recognize more than 2 drives or is this a
limitation of the SCSI controller. If I put just the new drive (change SCSI
id to 0) and temporarily unplug the current drives, dos fdisk can see the
drive just fine.

My plan in to use that procedure from that "sheep" guy who hangs around
here. I've used it successfully in the past.

Any suggestions?

TIA, (not Tia-Maria)
Paul

[Barry Schnur]

>
>I tried to add another drive but was unable to get dos 6.22 to recognize the
>new drive. The SCSI shows the drives upon startup (id 0,1 (original) id 3
>(new), but when I run fdisk to create a dos partition on the new drive, I
>only see 2 drives. Should dos recognize more than 2 drives or is this a
>limitation of the SCSI controller. If I put just the new drive (change SCSI
>id to 0) and temporarily unplug the current drives, dos fdisk can see the
>drive just fine.

DOS will recognize the third drive if your SCSI BIOS settings are changed to
do this.

Barry Schnur
Novell Support Connection Sysop

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[Paul Genovese]

Thanks Barry

Do you know the keystroke to access the SCSI bios on a compaq prosignia?
Usually it appears upon bootup but all I see is the devices with no option
to access the SCSI bios.

[felton...@bigfoot.com]

Hi

Double check your terminations and reseat the SCSI cables.

Don't worry about the drives being recognized in DOS since it will be
Novell....

launch the server and get into the install utility.

You should be able to see it there and create your NetWare partition.

Felton

[Barry Schnur]

Not sure here -- depends on the specific SCSI adapter involved.

Ctrl-A for Adaptec
F6 or F2 for Symbios
Ctrl-I for Initio

[Paul Genovese]

Barry Thanks,

I'm not sure either, the controller is integrated into the motherboard.

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[Paul Genovese]

Thanks!

"Barry Schnur" <bsc...@cox.net> wrote in message

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> Many of those were Symbios based on the Compaq servers.

[Barry Schnur]

Many of those were Symbios based on the Compaq servers.

Barry Schnur

[Barry Schnur]

Let us know..

[Paul Genovese]

Hi Barry:

I tried all the key vairations, I cannot access the SCSI bios. Does this
model compaq have an utility on floppy or can I access the SCSI bios on
startup?

all i see when the system boots is the SCSI devices with no option for
access to the bios.

thnx,
Paul

"Barry Schnur" <bsc...@cox.net> wrote in message

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[Barry Schnur]

I am not sure on this -- if this is an EISA based system (after all this is
3x), might be a disk for this purpose.

Also, it is a Compaq, you can get to it's boot BIOS with F10 or alt-F10.

[Paul Genovese]

thnks barry:

I just downloaded the Compaq System Configuration Utility; I'll give it a
try.

Paul

[Paul Genovese]

i can see all the drives when the SCSI bios boots, but I still cannot access
the new drives via fdisk.

my goal is to use the procedure from John Pence. In order to do this I need
to make a dos partition on the new drives, which I can't do because MS DOS
6.22 cannot see the addition drives using fdisk

Paul

[Barry Schnur]

OK -- but does the Compaq utility provide you with an option to change the
settings for the SCSI BIOS?

By the way, how many users on this server?

Assuming you have the licensed software to work with, it might be best to
simply copy all the data off to a workstation, then build up a replacement
server and restore from the workstation.

[Dave Lunn]

Paul,

I'm with Barry here, when the drives start heading south you can't bank on
much time all too often. Get the data off to a WS ( I know you already have
since you've been certified as decent and moral) and go at it from there.
Probability is that the server could use a restructuring anyway.
--
Dave Lunn
NSCV Sysop
http://support.novell.com

[Barry Schnur]

The thing is here, we are talking about 2G (max) of data -- I'd definitely do
a reinstall with that limited amount of data.

Heck, if one had Backup Exec on a Win9x system, then backup to a local hard
drive could be done with the bindery.

[Paul Genovese]

> OK -- but does the Compaq utility provide you with an option to change the
> settings for the SCSI BIOS?

Yes.

> By the way, how many users on this server?

23

> Assuming you have the licensed software to work with, it might be best to
> simply copy all the data off to a workstation, then build up a replacement
> server and restore from the workstation.

Yup, that is what I intend to do.

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul Genovese]

> I'm with Barry here, when the drives start heading south you can't bank on
> much time all too often. Get the data off to a WS ( I know you already
have
> since you've been certified as decent and moral) and go at it from there.
> Probability is that the server could use a restructuring anyway.

Ok, teach, I'm a doin/done just that.

[Barry Schnur]

>> OK -- but does the Compaq utility provide you with an option to change the
>> settings for the SCSI BIOS?
>
>Yes.

OK -- you might try changing a setting there regarding DOS drives.

>
>> By the way, how many users on this server?
>
>23
>
>> Assuming you have the licensed software to work with, it might be best to
>> simply copy all the data off to a workstation, then build up a replacement
>> server and restore from the workstation.
>
>Yup, that is what I intend to do.
>

Indeed -- that looks like a better approach here. Note, since it is 3.12, you
don't want to get too fancy with replacement hardware.