Virtual Replicator drive letters problem

[Martin Stanjer]

Hello All.
This question atually relates to the old thread Id=592979, but any new contributions would be most helpful, as I am now running out of ideas! I still have a problem where Virtual Replicator drives are assigned different drive letters after a restart. The msa1000 array has been deleted and recreated so raw disks are definitely not signed by windows. Otto Warlich suggested that applying permanent bindings to the HBAs using lputilnt should fix this behavior, but unfortunately has made no difference (unless I'm not doing it properly!). I had no problem prior to upgrading all firmware and HBA drivers to latest, secure path to 4.0C, OS to win2Ksp4 and VR to 3.0Bsp1. Is there an undocumented problem with this configuration? (incidentally, the recover drives utility appears to run, but does not fix the problem).
Rocky: Did you fix this problem for your customers? if so how?
Any suggestions would be gratefull recieved,
Thanks,
Martin.

[Rocky_8]

Martin,

I was not able to fix it.
The customer grew tired of the problem and he phased out the VR configuration.
I am maybe scheduled for a new implementation concerning an MSA1k and VR v4.
Hav you tried VR version 4 ?
or is this an upgrade that costs money ?
I have heard (a tip) that unmounting the drives and remounting them in a dos box helps.

I'll get back to you,

rgds,

Rocky

[Steven Clementi]

What is the firmware at on the MSA?

And why are you even using VR? Do you need the snapshot capability? or are you using it for expansion?


Steven

[Martin Stanjer]

The firmware I am using is version 4.24 as per the support CD version 6.51.

We are using VR primarily for the snapshot capability. (I would like to scrap it personally!)

I am now in the process of downgrading to my previous stable platform of Secure Path V4, Windows sp3 and VR 3.0. I am keeping the current Firmware, even though I was previously at v2.38. This seems to work OK, so I don't think the problem is a firmware issue.

Going to VR v4 is a chargable upgrade, and we are not in a position to purchase this at present. (anyone know if this fixes the problem?)

I am interested in how an unmounted VR drive can be mounted in DOS Have you tried this Rocky?