Boot up Error On Promise sx 6000 raid box

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Everytime my server is powered down, I recieve a stop inaccessible boot
device error on boot up.
Any ideas as to why this may happen??
 
Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000
the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows
2000 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the
floppy), and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini
to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you
wish to boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to start the
operating system located on the first partition of the primary or first
drive (drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000"

Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from
floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must
contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine,
not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT" boot sector gets written to the floppy), then
copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.

In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| Everytime my server is powered down, I recieve a stop inaccessible boot
| device error on boot up.
| Any ideas as to why this may happen??
 
Thanks Dave, I will try that. I am concerned though why this is happening. It
is a hard boot (hydro went off) but none the less I am not feeling confident
about putting our files on this "file server" if I power failure will render
it unavailable.
 
OK I misread. Seems it may be a timing issue with your hardware. You may
need to get in touch with the mobo and or controller manufacturer.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/CEC/watchdog.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks Dave, I will try that. I am concerned though why this is happening.
It
| is a hard boot (hydro went off) but none the less I am not feeling
confident
| about putting our files on this "file server" if I power failure will
render
| it unavailable.
 
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