-----Original Message-----
From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com>
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
Date: March 11, 1998 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: Am I goign to have a bad weekend?
>Dan Waldron wrote:
>>
>> I have a NT 4 SP3 server running a Quantum Big Foot IDE HD which I'm
pulling
>> out on Sunday morning to replace with one of these lovely new Seagate Ultra
2
>> Wide SCSI drives hanging off an Adaptec 2940U2W PCI controller.
>>
>> When I went to install the SCSI drive in an empty PC, NT's setup does not
>> support the controller, and a driver must be added during set up, or a STOP
>> error "BOOT_DEVICE_NOT_ACCESSIBLE" occurs.
>>
>> Once I've installed the new disk, I'll be restoring a tape backup with
>> registry to go back online.
>>
>> My question is how am I going to go rebooting after restoring my OLD NT
setup,
>> which *doesn't* have the driver installed? Do you think it will work if I:
>>
>> 1. Install the 2940U2W driver in my current setup,
>> 2. Without rebooting, backup,
>> 3. Remove the IDE drive and install teh SCSI drive
>> 4. Restore the backup
>> 5. Reboot
>>
>> I think this may very well work, but I'm not sure. As a sideline, this
seems
>> like a bloody fast drive.
>
>Microsoft has some pretty good KB articles on this. Basically, you
>need to copy the drive to a specific filename on your boot drive.
>NT automatically will look for and load ONE driver, not including the
>ATAPI driver, which should be the driver for which the boot drive is
>on. It does this before actually fully bringing up the NT kernal,
>so as long as the SCSI controller support INT13 bootable drives, it
>will work.
>
>--
>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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