Compaq 3200 DOS Partitions and NetWare Fault Tolerance, Installing the Operating System Drivers

6-8Installing the Operating System Drivers

DOS Partitions and NetWare Fault

Tolerance

NetWare does not mirror information on DOS partitions. Only hardware fault tolerance supports mirrored DOS partitions. If you have a mirrored drive containing a DOS partition, you need to restore the DOS partition information from another back-up source.

If the failed drive contains a DOS partition, NetWare cannot access information on that partition. For example, files on the DOS partition include STARTUP.NCF and Novell disk drivers. To prevent NetWare from attempting to read from or write to the failed device, execute the following command from the console.

REMOVE DOS

Recovering a DOS Partition without Hardware

Fault Tolerance

If your server is not configured for hardware fault tolerance, and if the failed drive contained the DOS partition used to boot your server, you will not be able to restart the server once it has been powered off. Schedule maintenance time as soon as possible and:

1.Power-down your server.

2.Replace the failed drive.

3.Reboot the system with the Compaq System Configuration Utility diskette.

4.Select the option to Install a System Partition on your DOS boot device. This partition should contain the Compaq System Configuration Utility and the Compaq Diagnostic Utility. Exit the System Configuration Utility.

5.Locate a DOS bootable diskette that contains the DOS FDISK and FORMAT programs.

6.Use the FDISK program to create a primary DOS partition on the replaced drive. Compaq recommends that your DOS partition be at least 15 MB.