Mirror SCSI to IDE drive

[brc666]

Is there any way to mirror a SCSI drive (Seagate ST39140W) to an IDE drive which I then want to boot off (using windows NT server)

The reason being I am trying to set up a lab PC, however the lab PC only has IDE drives, and I need a copy of the SCSI drive. Already tried mirroring and ghosting, but keep getting STOP 0x0000007B errors.

Any help appreciated

 

[rdroske]

Are you saying you want to boot this new machine with a copy of NT that came from another box entirely or that you just want this new box to boot up and be able to see whats on the SCSI drive?

 

[brc666]

Even if I use ide drive in same PC as original scsi drive I get STOP errors. The mirror set reports as being broken even after removing and recreating the set and trying different IDE discs, so cannot get it to remirror successfully. Ghosting from scsi to ide also gets STOP errors when booting off IDE even when in the original PC. I have no problem booting from the original SCSI disc, I just want a mirrored/ghosted copy on IDE that I can boot from in the original PC.

 

[rdroske]

You know that you need to change boot.ini (or boot from a floppy with a different boot.ini?) to boot off the mirrored copy (assuming that it did get re-created)?

So you would have to boot from good SCSI, in NT mirror the drive then boot with different boot.ini.

 

[ReddLefty]

There exists an adapter you can place on your IDE drive that will then let you connect to a SCSI bus. The IDE drive basically becomes a SCSI device, with a SCSI ID and all. I unfortunatly don't have the manufacturer, but I'm sure a quick search on the net will reveal several products.

With 2 SCSI drives, you will be able to set up a Mirror at the RAID level (if your SCSI supports it). If not, you might not get the STOP error after ghosting since the IDE drive should be able to boot like a SCSI drive (as your main disk).



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