I am trying to access an iSCSI Target on Open-E DSS. With a Windows 2003 Server and the MS iSCSI Initiator this is no problem. Trying to acces the target from a Windows 2000 Server this does not work correctly. I see the iSCSI Partition in the Windows Disk Manager, I can create and format Partitions, but I get an error "F:\ Das System kann das angegebene Gerät nicht finden" (means: "The system cannot find the given device.") when I try to open the new drive. There are no errors messages in the event viewer.
I have tried nearly all versions of MS iSCSI Initiator between 1.06 and 2.08, but with all of them it's the same behaviour. I did not find anything to this error in the net.
@To-M:
Yes, the iSCSI volume is on a seperate Target and LUN. I've tried both Block IO and Try File IO w/ Initialization, but it ends in the same error.
@To-L:
Yes, the windows 2000 is up to date via Windows Update Services. The links you posted unfortunately did not fix the issue. But here are some additional infos:
- the iSCSI volume is formatted with Windows 2000 version of NTFS
- the iSCSI Initiator service is running
- I additionally installed MS Remote Storage, but it did not recognise the iSCSI volume
Here's a screenshot of the device manager which shows, that the iSCSI volume (F should be ok...
Just a thought, try with a smaller size like 10GB. Also when at the format partition wizard in windows try to use the "Allocation unit size of 4096 (don’t use the default).
I just completed a fresh install of Windows Server 2000, I updated to service pack 4
and downloaded the Microsoft iSCSI initiator-2.04-build3273-x86fre
There are 3 different versions of the iSCSI initiator-2.04, do you have the correct one installed?
It looks as it depends on the CPU.
I was able to connect and mount to both a file I/O and Block I/O Lun
I also copied files to both lun's.
It looks as you did add the Lun to the target.
Configuration-> iscsi target manager->target volume manager
For the block I/O did you get message to format it first?
I would double check your network, if possible make small network with only the DSS and the win 2000 server with a switch to test.
Also check your NIC's could be a setting somewhere that is blocking you.
Do you have any firewall applications on the Win 2000 server ?