Why is my dynamic disk always offline?

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I had written a scsi miniport driver. When I use its device as a
dynamic disk, it seems offline in the Disk Management, and I must
reactivate it with right click to use it after every boot. I have
searched internet much time but got no answer.
How can I avoid this problem?

Any reply will be appreciated.

paul

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Paul,

If your disks are not available early enough in the boot process, you will
have this problem. Looks to me you are waiting for the n/w to come up before
you could connect to the remote disk or something, right?

-Bandeep

“paul chen” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> I had written a scsi miniport driver. When I use its device as a
> dynamic disk, it seems offline in the Disk Management, and I must
> reactivate it with right click to use it after every boot. I have
> searched internet much time but got no answer.
> How can I avoid this problem?
>
> Any reply will be appreciated.
>
> paul
>
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KB article 244550
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;244550) may be of
help. A possibility – a workaround, really – is to employ diskpart.exe to
bring the disks online, that is, to automate the effort, perhaps in a
service. I’ve not tried this in a service, however, and would be interested
in hearing results.

–
James Antognini
Windows DDK Support

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“paul chen” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>I had written a scsi miniport driver. When I use its device as a
> dynamic disk, it seems offline in the Disk Management, and I must
> reactivate it with right click to use it after every boot. I have
> searched internet much time but got no answer.
> How can I avoid this problem?
>
> Any reply will be appreciated.
>
> paul
>
> _________________________________________________________________
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Bandeep,
Sure it should wait for the n/w to come up. Does it mean in such a
situation the disk should need
to be reactivated?
thanks.

paul.

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Yes, you will have to activate the disks, manually or by a script on boot-up
or may be as James suggested, do it from a service.

-Bandeep

“paul chen” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Bandeep,
> Sure it should wait for the n/w to come up. Does it mean in such a
> situation the disk should need
> to be reactivated?
> thanks.
>
> paul.
>
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