Ghost Enterprise 8.2 and 1950/2950 problem

Question

Hello, I am having some serious problems with our new 1950's and 2950's and getting ghost images to restore. I am using the correct Netxtreme II drivers for my servers, I have made several Ghost boot disks which seem to work for creating images and pushing them to the Ghostcast server, but I am having a 90%+ failure rate on restoring these images to other 1950's and 2950's. I have restored the images to 1850's 2950's, 1750's and 1650's, all restore just fine, but the 1950s and 2950's are not working at all. I am getting an error in the restore log of:

316998281 rml_wait failed: connection aborted
RML_recv failed: Software caused connection to abort.
rml_wait failed: connection aborted

I believe it has something to do with a problem with the network drivers of the 1950 and 2950, but there is only the one driver version available.

Can anyone else with a PE 1950 or 2950, Perc 5 and Netxtreme II gig NIC's confirm or deny they might be having same/similar problems?

Can anyone give me any ideas as to how to go about fixing this problem?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

Marcels · Answer

Hello,   We have exactly the same problem when receiving a ghostcast 8.2 image on a PE2950. To temporaly bypass the problem we have inserted a INTEL NIC , and used e1000.dos ndis2 driver. Now the image is written to the PE2950 system without any problems.   Strangly with ghost 7.0 no problems occur.   I hope someone finds or can debug the Bcom Netxtreme II driver so that this driver also will work on a 2950.    Best Regards   Marcels VSN systemen BV

GotGamble · Answer

I knew dropping in a good old Intel NIC would do the trick, I just didn't have time last week to play with it anymore. I tried it tonight and you can verify that this works. It is a little bit of a pain to put NIC's in 10 servers at a time just to clone them, but until Dell addresses this we don't have much choice on Window's builds.

Thanks for your reply, it is nice to hear that I am not the only one having this problem.

dogmanky · Answer

I just grabbed the DOS NDIS2 driver at http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php   In ghost 7.5 it works fine.  I'm ghosting an image of a brand new 1950 as I type.   :smileyhappy:

GotGamble · Answer

We don't use Ghost 7.5 here. It would be great if we did, because apparently it works like a charm, but the same driver under Ghost 8 does not work.

bentz · Answer

How are you all getting ghost to recognize the controller? I've got Ghost 8.3 and it keeps saying 'There is no valid Source Drive to choose (11032)'. I called Symantec technical support, and they said that Ghost doesn't support SAS controllers yet, and to see if I could get a DOS driver for the Perc 5/i. I checked the Dell Support site, and the only DOS drivers I can get for the Perc 5/i are Firmware upgrades...

GotGamble · Answer

I haven't had any problems getting Ghost to read/write to the controller. And the latest driver from Broadcom has seemed to have fixed my Ghosting problems in 8.x, so I am happy.

Radiusmax · Answer

I am in the same boat as Bentz. I have tried ghosting with 7.5, 8.2, and ghost 2003. I have a DOS based network boot disk that I boot from and then start Ghost. Ghost does not recognize any of the 1950 drives. I get the same error from Ghost, "There is no valid source drive to choose (11032).

Are you creating a special boot disk that loads the SAS controller driver?

GotGamble · Answer

Nope, using Ghost 8.2 Boot Disk Wizard. Just modifying the duplex/speed options for the network driver. The SAS drives are read/written from auto-magically for some reason. Maybe not under 7.5 or 2003, I am using Corp 8.2

gjwl_8 · Answer

OK, we had a similar situation where we were trying to dump an image onto a PE6850 with SAS drives. We got the 'no disk drives were detected (525)' error when trying to ghost from the network share. We also got the 'there is no valid source drive to choose (11032)' when trying to take an image of the SAS drives. For some reason ghost couldn't see the drives no matter what we tried. We were able to take the image of another 6850 that contains SCSI drives. We spent 2 full days trying many things including using different versions of ghost, updating the network boot disk, contacting Dell, googling whatever we could to no avail. On the 3rd day, we were lucky to run into a solution. Instead of booting off the network, we used a bootable CD that contains the ghost EXE. We boot up to Ghost, then swap out the CD with a DVD that contains the image. It worked!! The server is being imaged as I'm writing this post. Hopefully someone will find this helpful because I had absolutely no luck in searching for this error message or finding any solutions online.

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