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Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:50 pm
by qionized
i was evaluating an installation of starwind on windows 2008 r2 server core. after uninstalling the software, the Starport Storage Controller still shows up in device manager/System Information. How can i remove this from the system?
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:57 pm
by anton (staff)
Go to Control Panel, click System, open Device Manager, expand the tree, select "StarPort Storage Controller" and remove it checking "delete files" checkbox.
P.S. StarWind V5.8 and up should have no kernel components by default.
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:04 am
by qionized
thank you for the quick reply. unfortunately, windows 2008 server core does not have control panel / device manager, so this method will not work. i'm thinking that i need to delete some registry keys and perhaps a .sys file or two, but i do not know precisely which ones and don't want to screw up the server.
ps. as an aside, it's not resource usage i'm concerned with so much as the fact that the starport driver causes microsoft's cluster validation tool to throw warnings (this server will be part of a failover cluster).
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:58 pm
by anton (staff)
It does not matter. You can remotely manage devices just fine. Here's step-by-step guide (just in case):
http://www.petri.co.il/remotely-manage- ... 8-core.htm
There's no way to bypass Microsoft limitations that's why we have to withdraw monolothic SCSI port based component from StarWind installation.
qionized wrote:thank you for the quick reply. unfortunately, windows 2008 server core does not have control panel / device manager, so this method will not work. i'm thinking that i need to delete some registry keys and perhaps a .sys file or two, but i do not know precisely which ones and don't want to screw up the server.
ps. as an aside, it's not resource usage i'm concerned with so much as the fact that the starport driver causes microsoft's cluster validation tool to throw warnings (this server will be part of a failover cluster).
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:57 pm
by qionized
again, thanks for the follow-up.
anton (staff) wrote:You can remotely manage devices just fine.
unfortunately, Device Manager is always read-only when run remotely (i have seen postings that intimate otherwise, but they are incorrect--see section on device manager here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... S.10).aspx), so this will not work.
I did find a solution, however:
1.) If necessary, re-install Starport iSCSI server and Starport Driver.
2.) open a command prompt and cd to the install directory (default: C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind\)
3.) uninstall the driver:
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DrvInst.exe -uninstall root\starport uninstall
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4.) uninstall everything else:
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5.) remove install dir:
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rmdir /s "C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\"
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:37 am
by Anatoly (staff)
Nice!:)
That was next thing to be suggested
Re: Remove Starport Storage Controller
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:41 am
by anton (staff)
Know what? You're cheater Anatoly
We all LOVE self-supporting customers but you do it in a very clumsy way
Anatoly (staff) wrote:Nice!:)
That was next thing to be suggested