Hi all,
It's been a bad weekend for disc drives around here. The disc drive in my
primary development machine gave up the ghost, as did one of the pair in
the school's main file server.
The one in my machine had the exceptional courtesy to drop off the twig
about ten minutes AFTER the 2AM full backup finished this morning, so
that's just an ordinary headache. The one in the school's machine,
however, failed with NO backup since the person doing the admin there had
neglected to tell me that the tape drive failed at the beginning of the
summer.
The one at the school was half a mirrored SCSI pair, the half that's the
boot disc. I would think that all I need to do is configure the remaining
good drive at SCSI address 0 and boot, but when I do that, the system
never even gets as far as finding the loader.
I put the good drive into another server at the site, and am running a
backup, to make sure that there's *some* copy of the data. But I need to
get the file server back in service and I can't figure out how to do it.
The machine is a Compaq ProLiant 200MHz Pentium Pro with built-in SCSI.
That means that the standard NT install CD is useless, since it doesn't
have the necessary driver for the SCSI controller. The people who
abandoned the system to us neglected to leave us with a recovery CD or
emergency repair disc, and the system won't boot directly from CD in any
case.
If anyone can give me a clue as to how to boot from the good
mirrored-disc half, or even a clue as to where to look to find out, I'd
be most appreciative. If someone can tell me how to get the files off the
disc so I can put them on a new server, that'd be even better. School
doesn't start until next week, so if I lose the student files nobody will
care. Has anyone tried to mount an NTFS partition on a Linux box?
Thanks,
-- Bruce
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