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  3. March 2006

Re: IXS server and Network Storage Spaces

Walden,
You are right about this. I haven't pushed the limits TOO far but I pulled a drive from a Wintel (white box) (PIII 800 running Windows XP) and put it in a completely new, P4 Acer PC and it worked. Granted, you have to do some "prep" like updating your video and HDD drivers to "generic" versions BEFORE you pull the drive (JUST before) and it will come up pretty much intact. It updates a zillion other drivers and forces you to re-activate Windows but it does work.
That is why I was so baffled when I migrated from a model 270 running an IXS to a brand spankin new i5 with an IXS (different model, of course) and I couldn't start the server. I would have thought that IBM, knowing exactly what the IXS HAL requirements are on the old 270 and exactly what the IXS HAL requirements are in the new IXS on the i5 could have built a "migration" tool that prepares the *NWS object to be restored to the new hardware. You can do it with "vanilla" hardware, why not IBM specified hardware?
They are probably just not that interested in making it that easy. Better to start from scratch and install Linux instead.... :-) 

Pete Helgren


Walden H. Leverich wrote:


But there's only so much IBM can do to overcome the limits of

Microsoft's OS.

Hate to say it, that's not an MS limitation. Take a drive from one PC
and throw it in another -- bet you'll boot! Windows is rather forgiving
about changes in hardware.

-Walden

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