After installing a second drive in an IBM server (shipped with a single drive), be sure to enable HostRAID in the BIOS before launching ServerGuide.

Page 40 of the included Installation Guide has a nice description, but I wanted to keep it in my online notebook for later.

Press F1 when booting the server to access the Bios/Configuration

Devices & I/O Ports
Advanced Chipset Control
Serial ATA

Parallel ATA: Enabled
Serial ATA: Enabled
SATA Controller Mode Option: Enhanced
SATA RAID Enabled: Enabled

Native Mode Operation: Auto -> Serial ATA
(dissapears when "SATA Controller Mode Option" is switched from "Compatible" to "Enhanced")

"SATA AHCI Enable" disappears when "SATA RAID Enable" is switched from "disabled" to "Enabled"

Save this configuration and run through ServerGuide. Pick the Express RAID configuration, but change the initialization from "Clear" to "Quick" if the drives are new and haven't been used before now to help speed up the process.

Reference page at IBM website with information on using "Quick" instead of "Clear" to initialize a newly created array. IBM

 

 

( IBM xSeries 206m SATA RAID ServerGuide HostRAID ServeRAID Windows 2003 Win2k3 Server )

Corrupted index.dat in Cookies caused explorer.exe to crash immediately after logging in to system. Disk error was listed in EventLog, but the event logs were not corrupt and checkdsk said the drive is fine. Discover corrupted file during profile copy. Delete file and reboot to fix. Notice active desktop is in effect and was probably calling Internet Explorer to manage the desktop which caused a cascading effect when it failed to launch.

This is similar to the corrupt index.dat in Temporary Internet Files encountered last week. That system booted fine and launched Internet Explorer, but IE locked up as it was trying to receive web page data.

Cookie trouble on Windows 2000 and the other was Windows XP

 

 

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This script has been designed to interface with NTbackup on a Windows 2000 server

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Set this batch file in "C:\Tech" and schedule a task to run it with administrative priviledges. The script below should create two log files on it's own with the date and time of "starting" and "stopping" in the same folder. It should also start backing up on "4mm DDS" tape drive (change this to your hardware) in overwrite mode and name the tape using the date and time. This should provide a unique name every time it is run. The next few commands append to the tape with the same name (the one still in there).

(the eject command doesn't quite work yet, but has been left as a future reminder to include it at some point)

@echo off
c:
cd\tech
FOR /F "Tokens=1-4 Delims=-/ " %%i IN ('date /t') DO SET dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l-
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=:/ " %%i IN ('TIME /t') DO SET dt=%dt%-%%i-%%j

echo ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   Start %dt% >1start.log

%windir%\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup E:\ /j "E Drive" /n %dt% /p "4mm DDS" /d "Daily Backup"    /v:yes /r:no /l:s /m normal /rs:no /hc:on  /um
%windir%\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup D:\ /j "D Drive" /t %dt% /d "Daily Backup" /a /v:yes /r:no /l:s /m normal /rs:no /hc:on
%windir%\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup systemstate C:\ /j "C Drive" /t %dt% /d "Daily Backup" /a /v:yes /r:no /l:s /m normal /rs:no /hc:on
rem %windir%\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE eject

FOR /F "Tokens=1-4 Delims=-/ " %%i IN ('date /t') DO SET dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l-
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=:/ " %%i IN ('TIME /t') DO SET dt=%dt%-%%i-%%j
echo ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   ===   Stop %dt% >2stop.log

 

 

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