Ghost 8 and IBM Servers - Specifically 346

[kevinjdonnelly]

Hi,

I am suffering some severe pain at the hands of Symantec Ghost and IBM
servers here...please can someone help me out...

Here is the problem:

Trying to clone IBM346 Servers, the spec is:
IBM 346
Serveraid 7k controller
4x 146gb drives in raid 5 configuration
5gb ram

I have also tried this with just the onboard hostraid controller, same
problem...

Basically, when I try to launch ghost it locks up mainly but using
switches -ffs or fis (believe me i have tried them all!!) i get the
following error:

"application error 29004 read sector failure result=1, drive=0, sectors
6291488 to 6291490"

I have used ghost successfully on raid configurations with HP hardware
no problem, so I know it isnt to do with raid itself just something
with this controller...it could perhaps be the size of the drives
though I have no smaller ones to test with...

anyone who can shed some light on this would be most appreciated, I
can't believe I am the only person having this drama... I am also
looking at ADS from microsoft, V2i, Acronis trueimage and the like...

Thanks...

Kevin

 

[Rod Speed]

(e-mail address removed) wrote

I am suffering some severe pain at the hands of Symantec Ghost
and IBM servers here...please can someone help me out...

Here is the problem:

Trying to clone IBM346 Servers, the spec is:
IBM 346
Serveraid 7k controller
4x 146gb drives in raid 5 configuration
5gb ram

I have also tried this with just the onboard
hostraid controller, same problem...

Basically, when I try to launch ghost it locks up mainly but using
switches -ffs or fis (believe me i have tried them all!!) i get the
following error:

"application error 29004 read sector failure result=1, drive=0,
sectors 6291488 to 6291490"

Presumably there are a few bad sectors there and it cant
handle that if those are valid sectors numbers for that config.

I have used ghost successfully on raid configurations
with HP hardware no problem, so I know it isnt to do
with raid itself just something with this controller...

Symantec doesnt support RAID with Ghost 8
http://tinyurl.com/6t536
http://tinyurl.com/3vjne

You are seeing the reason it doesnt officially
support RAID, it doesnt work with all RAID configs.

 

[Kevin D]

Thanks Rod,

I remember seeing that article, I like the disclaimer...it will work in
some situations...

hmmm...i did think about the aspi drivers before, might give it a last
go with those and see how it goes but hey, thought i'd put it out there
thought it may have been a quirky IBM thing..

Thanks

Kevin