svnserve Windows Service and iSCSI disk does not start after reboot

Hello,

I have a physical (not virtual) Windows Server 2003 box set up with svnserve.exe running as an auto start windows service. svnserve starts with the following command line.

"<path to>\svnserve.exe" --service -r "D:\Repositories" --listen-port "3690" --log-file "C:\Logs\svnserve.log"

The repositories are on a SAN (that is D: drive is on the SAN) that the box links to using iSCSI. When the [Windows] server is restarted the svnserve service attempts to start but fails with an error "The Subversion Server service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

However, if I wait for windows to boot fully and then manually start the service it works.

If I change the repository root to the C: drive, which is a physical disk on the server, the service starts normally on a reboot. I'm guessing that I need to make the svnserve service dependent on some other service/device but I can't work out which one.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of setup and/or can anyone offer suggestions as to how I can ensure that the svnserve service starts normally when the server is rebooted?

Thanks.
Keith Moore.
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Received on 2010-06-07 07:48:23 CEST