Windows 2000 mount point not persisting

[Phil]

This was previously posted to a couple of other groups but I think
this is probably the most appropriate. Hopefully I'll get a
better/any response here.

I have a spanned dynamic volume (all SCSI) mounted through a directory
on my C drive. All works fine except the mount does not persist after
a reboot, dmboot logs an event message with eventID 2 error "Failed to
mount volume Volume1 (no mountpoint)". I can go into Disk Manager
after the boot and re-activate the volume with no problem, it just
won't persist. This is a completely fresh install of Win2k with SP4.
Any ideas?

 

[Phil]

I have a spanned dynamic volume (all SCSI) mounted through a directory
on my C drive. All works fine except the mount does not persist after
a reboot, dmboot logs an event message with eventID 2 error "Failed to
mount volume Volume1 (no mountpoint)". I can go into Disk Manager
after the boot and re-activate the volume with no problem, it just
won't persist. This is a completely fresh install of Win2k with SP4.

I have narrowed this problem to what appears to be the SCSI start-up.
I can
mount an IDE drive and it correctly persists the mount, but I tried
each SCSI drive individually and each results in the same dmboot
eventID 2.

Is it possible that the SCSI drivers aren't yet loaded when dmboot and
friends are mounting the volumes? The "mountpoints" information
appears to be OK in the registry entries so it's almost like the (no
mountpoint) is referring to the drive rather than the junction name.

 

[Phil]

This was previously posted to a couple of other groups but I think
this is probably the most appropriate. Hopefully I'll get a
better/any response here.

I have a spanned dynamic volume (all SCSI) mounted through a directory
on my C drive. All works fine except the mount does not persist after
a reboot, dmboot logs an event message with eventID 2 error "Failed to
mount volume Volume1 (no mountpoint)". I can go into Disk Manager
after the boot and re-activate the volume with no problem, it just
won't persist. This is a completely fresh install of Win2k with SP4.
Any ideas?

Problem resolved by me. For others in the future, I tried every SCSI
driver I could find for the Adaptec AIC6260 chips and finally found
one that worked at boot time. The original driver for the
AHA151x/AHA152x worked fine except for the automatic mount, switching
to the AIC6260 Single Chip SCSI drivers solved the problem.