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Microsoft Initiator not working

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:26 pm
by jduehmig
I have installed the trial version of StarWind on a Dell PowerVault NAS box and created an image file of 1Gb. I then installed the Microsoft Initiator 2.0 on a file server running Win2K3. From the file server, I can login to the target and the discovery and target tabs show the StarWind target. However, I do not see a drive letter and I'm not sure what steps I should take next to make the target drive available. Under Target Properties/Devices/Advanced tab, I see the following information:
Type: Disk
Device Number: 1
SCSI Address: Port 2, Bus 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0
Device Interface Name: \\?\scsi#disk&ven_rocket__&prod_imagefile_______&rev_0001#1&2afd7d61&0&000000#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c9
Legacy Device Name: \\.\PhysicalDrive1
Volume Path Names:

The Device Interface Name appears confusing. Does this look correct? Also, when I go to the BoundVolumes/Devices tab and click on 'bind all', the Device Interface Name is added to the list as show above.

I am obviously missing something. Can you tell me where to go from here?

Thanks!
Joe

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:53 pm
by anton (staff)
Run Disk Administrator, partition and fomat the drive exactly in the way you do with an ordinary hard disk...

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:15 pm
by jduehmig
Anton,
That was it. Didn't think it would be that easy. Thanks for the quick response.
Joe

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:43 pm
by anton (staff)
:)
jduehmig wrote:Anton,
That was it. Didn't think it would be that easy. Thanks for the quick response.
Joe