Can EWF volume reside on a SCSI disk?

[acp]

I just read that the EWF volume "can reside on any IDE drive" does this mean

the EWF volume cannot reside on a SCSI drive?


Thanks,

andrew



8:44:47 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.

8:44:47 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from registry.

8:44:47 AM - Non El Torito disk configuration.

8:44:47 AM - EWF Partition Size = 0 (KBytes), Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.

8:44:47 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :

8:44:47 AM - Disk= 0,Part= 1,DiskType= SCSI,Type= RAM.

8:44:47 AM - Enable= Disabled, Optimize= 0, LazyWrite= Y.

8:44:47 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.

8:44:47 AM - Disk #0 layout info:

8:44:47 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000007e00,
len=0x000000003bcf7600, type= 7

8:44:47 AM - FREE partition,start=0x000000003bcff400,
len=0x000000040124d600, type= 0

8:44:47 AM - Allocating EWF in PRIMARY partition,
start=0x000000003bcff400, len=0x000000000000fc00.

8:44:47 AM - Created EWF partition on Disk = 0, partition = 2,size =
0x000000000000fc00 .

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen.

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen returned invalid file handle.

8:44:48 AM - Deleting EWF Partition #2, disk#=0, type=69

8:44:48 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x2.

8:44:48 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ewfdll.dll,
ConfigureEwf (Error: 0x2)

 

[KM]

acp,

Why not? You even have IDE/SCSI option on the EWF component settings page
for the protected volume disk type.

From the log you attached, check if:
- "PnP(User-Mode)" component is included in your Configuration
- Befiore deploying the image and starting FBA, make sure to delete old
EWF Config partition from your target disk. You can do that with "etprep
/delete".

KM

 

[acp]

True you can specify the type of partition to protect,
but i'm not so sure you can specify the EWF volume type.
And, yes i do have the PnP User Mode component. Don't
need to remove the EWF volume, FBA is already doing that:

i don't see why it wouldn't work, have you been able to do this with a SCSI
drive?

Thanks,
acp

acp,

Why not? You even have IDE/SCSI option on the EWF component settings page
for the protected volume disk type.

From the log you attached, check if:
- "PnP(User-Mode)" component is included in your Configuration
- Befiore deploying the image and starting FBA, make sure to delete old
EWF Config partition from your target disk. You can do that with "etprep
/delete".

KM

I just read that the EWF volume "can reside on any IDE drive" does this mean

the EWF volume cannot reside on a SCSI drive?





8:44:47 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.

8:44:47 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from registry.

8:44:47 AM - Non El Torito disk configuration.

8:44:47 AM - EWF Partition Size = 0 (KBytes), Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.

8:44:47 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :

8:44:47 AM - Disk= 0,Part= 1,DiskType= SCSI,Type= RAM.

8:44:47 AM - Enable= Disabled, Optimize= 0, LazyWrite= Y.

8:44:47 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.

8:44:47 AM - Disk #0 layout info:

8:44:47 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000007e00,
len=0x000000003bcf7600, type= 7

8:44:47 AM - FREE partition,start=0x000000003bcff400,
len=0x000000040124d600, type= 0

8:44:47 AM - Allocating EWF in PRIMARY partition,
start=0x000000003bcff400, len=0x000000000000fc00.

8:44:47 AM - Created EWF partition on Disk = 0, partition = 2,size =
0x000000000000fc00 .

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen.

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen returned invalid file handle.

8:44:48 AM - Deleting EWF Partition #2, disk#=0, type=69

8:44:48 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x2.

8:44:48 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ewfdll.dll,
ConfigureEwf (Error: 0x2)

 

[acp]

Using the following technical artical:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/XPESP1_CF_EWF.asp

i was able to manually get EWF working:

Protected Volume Configuration
Type RAM
State ENABLED
Volume ID 8E B1 82 7F 00 7E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Device Name "\Device\HarddiskVolume1" [C:]
Max Levels 1
Clump Size 512
Current Level 1

Memory used for data 3774976 bytes
Memory used for mapping 4096 bytes


but i have yet to get it configured during FBA, even after a
low-level format of the root disk. Any additional ideas and
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
acp

 

[KM]

acp,

True you can specify the type of partition to protect,
but i'm not so sure you can specify the EWF volume type.
And, yes i do have the PnP User Mode component. Don't
need to remove the EWF volume, FBA is already doing that:

What do you mena by that? Do you have a custom FBA command that calls to etprep /delete?
Before image deployment just make sure to delete the EWF Config volume.

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.

i don't see why it wouldn't work, have you been able to do this with a SCSI
drive?

Thanks,
acp

acp,

Why not? You even have IDE/SCSI option on the EWF component settings page
for the protected volume disk type.

From the log you attached, check if:
- "PnP(User-Mode)" component is included in your Configuration
- Befiore deploying the image and starting FBA, make sure to delete old
EWF Config partition from your target disk. You can do that with "etprep
/delete".

KM

I just read that the EWF volume "can reside on any IDE drive" does this mean

the EWF volume cannot reside on a SCSI drive?





8:44:47 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.

8:44:47 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from registry.

8:44:47 AM - Non El Torito disk configuration.

8:44:47 AM - EWF Partition Size = 0 (KBytes), Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.

8:44:47 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :

8:44:47 AM - Disk= 0,Part= 1,DiskType= SCSI,Type= RAM.

8:44:47 AM - Enable= Disabled, Optimize= 0, LazyWrite= Y.

8:44:47 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.

8:44:47 AM - Disk #0 layout info:

8:44:47 AM - PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000007e00,
len=0x000000003bcf7600, type= 7

8:44:47 AM - FREE partition,start=0x000000003bcff400,
len=0x000000040124d600, type= 0

8:44:47 AM - Allocating EWF in PRIMARY partition,
start=0x000000003bcff400, len=0x000000000000fc00.

8:44:47 AM - Created EWF partition on Disk = 0, partition = 2,size =
0x000000000000fc00 .

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen.

8:44:48 AM - ewfOpen returned invalid file handle.

8:44:48 AM - Deleting EWF Partition #2, disk#=0, type=69

8:44:48 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x2.

8:44:48 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ewfdll.dll,
ConfigureEwf (Error: 0x2)

 

[acp]

acp,


What do you mena by that? Do you have a custom FBA command that calls to etprep /delete?
Before image deployment just make sure to delete the EWF Config volume.

No, what i observed in the fbalog.txt was that the EWF Config Volume
was already being deleted, (see log entry below). i didn't script
or FBA command anything.

If i can get an IDE drive into this machine, i'll try the same
thing with it just to confirm or deny the issue.

Thanks,
acp