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Troubleshooting
Striped Sets Cannot Be Seen on System
Problem
When you move a set of striped drives from system A to system B,
system B sees the set of striped drives physically, but cannot see a file
system on the striped set.
Explanation/Fix
The Windows NT system that creates the striped set is the only system
that can see the file system on the striped set because the system
updates the System Registry for that striped set and enables the Ftdisk
driver (Fault tolerant).
If you move that striped set to another Windows NT system, the new
Windows NT system can see the set of striped drives, but because the
striped set is not in the System Registry and the Ftdisk driver is not
enabled, the system cannot see a file system on the striped set.
Avid provides a utility, Disk Mounter, that allows you to create a set of
striped drives on one Windows NT system and then move that set of
striped drives to another Windows NT system. How to use the utility
is explained in the Avid utilities guide that ships with every
Windows NT system. The book is small so don’t overlook it. If you
follow the instructions for the use of Disk Mounter you should have
no problems moving striped sets from one system to another.
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You should also use the Disk Mounter utility to store the registry information
on the striped set in case you need to rebuild the system using the Avid Setup
and Product Recovery CD-ROM. You can then take the registry information
from the striped set and place it back into the System Registry in the newly
created system.
