Friday, 4 July 2008
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| Re: Hitachi firmware Chevalier des bois 15:44:30 |
| | Erwin van Bilsen wrote:> I have some "old" scsi disks from a HDS 9200.> the disks are 47GB model "DKR1B-J47SC"> and I'm looking for a version of firmware that wil make the disks work on a > adaptec 39160.>
P.S.> I tried 3 disks on the adaptec, but they will not format. > Maybe they are 520b/sec low level formated.
Try the code update tools from hgst to modify them to 512n/sec
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Saturday, 22 September 2007
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| Snap! Assist Software Guest 22:13:14 |
| | Hi All,
We have 3 Snap! servers in use, and one (2200) have been giving us
problems off and on, but of late it seems to have lost it's network
connectivity. I was hoping to reload the OS to see if this solves the
problems, but you need the Snap! Assist software to do this. Problem
here is that this software is impossible to locate. Adaptec does not
have it available for download, and you MUST have a support contract to
contact them.
Does anyone have a copy of this software available I can get? I'm
pretty sure it's included with every Snap! server.
Any help would be appreicated.
Ken
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Thursday, 10 May 2007
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| adding disk in Celerra Guest 18:21:30 |
| | how is disk added in Celerra? what is the impact? i assume that celerra
does not need to be brought down for this.
Thanks
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007
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| PQMagic 8 ----> converted NTFS to Fat32 and the drive is now empty??? BeachDude 06:34:23 |
| | I had a problem with my XP computer and had to move the secondary HDD
(NTFS) to another computer. Unfortunatly that computer is only
running WinME. Of course, WinME couldnt even see the drive so I used
PartionMagic 8 to convert it back to FAT32.
It didnt' take long (the HDD was only 13GB). When PQ8 was done it
asked me to reboot - Once WinME was up and running the HDD is
accessible and EMPTY. There is one folder named windows??? and it
has a bunch of the normal subfolders,... but no files.
The drive was half full when I converted it and there were NO errors
produced in the conversion. Now the drive apears completely empty
(almost like it was freshly formatted).
Where did all my files go? If I convert it back to NTFS will they
still be there? HELP HELP HELP.
If I had converted back to Fat32 on a machine running WinXP would this
still have happend? Where did I go wrong?
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Monday, 27 November 2006
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| Linux and Acard AEC-6897 PCI-X ATA controller? Yeechang Lee 10:15:16 |
| | I'm in the market for a four-channel PCI-X 64-bit ATA (not SATA)
controller card
(<URL:http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=slrncvkvig.phj.ylee%40pobox.com>)
and was referred to the Acard AEC-6897. However, there's no
information on whether this will work with the Linux 2.6 kernel,
specifically for software RAID. Anyone with firsthand experience, good
or bad?
--
Read my Deep Thoughts @ <URL:http://www.ylee.org/blog/> PERTH ----> *
Cpu(s): 4.2% us, 1.6% sy, 93.7% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.3% si
Mem: 515800k total, 513516k used, 2284k free, 51720k buffers
Swap: 2101032k total, 124796k used, 1976236k free, 127408k cached
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006
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| CX300 versus cx700 IR Control 01:25:10 |
| | Hi,
Just wondering whether anybody can tell the differences betwwen the EMC
CX300 and CX700
apart form the max. capacity which is obvoius deffrence from the
description.
I'd like to know whethere:
- the CX300 is just a scaled down version of the CX700 or the firmware is
different and so on.
- what is the minimum number of disks supported in the CX700
- how big is risk/impact having the CX300 in test envinronment and the CX700
in production
Any practical examples welcome
Thanks
D.
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Tuesday, 15 August 2006
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| alternatives to EMC DiskXtender Guest 21:12:29 |
| | Hi all,
I am new to ILM & HSM. Right now I am looking for a archival solution.
Looking thru EMC's website, Centera CAS & DiskXtender caught my eyes.
Although one is hardware and the other is software, it seems that the
roles of Centera CAS & DiskXtender overlapped. Both seems to have the
intelligence of organising objects with policies. Is somebody able to
explain this distinction between the two.
Also, is there any other good products out there that is able function
the role of DiskXtender?
Thanks to all.
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| At what point is ILM needed? Guest 19:08:07 |
| | Hi,
I am trying to figure out at what point I should be looking into some
sort of ILM technology. In reading vendor case studies such as
(http://www.netapp.com/library/cs/mustang.pdf), I dont see why I cant
just keep adding more disks to my primary storage right now as demand
increases... when should I be looking into ILM (at what storage
capacity)? How many GigaBytes or TeraBytes before I should consider an
ILM strategy?
Jon
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| DIY 1TB+ RAID NAS? Evert Meulie 17:55:33 |
| | Hi all!
I've been Google'ing the net a bit, searching for a NAS that has the
following specs:
* 1TB+ storage available
* RAID1 or RAID5
* quiet!
The prices I came across were a bit steep though... Isn't it easier to
build one myself? But I guess for RAID5 I'd need a quiet barebone that
can contain 4x SATA... Not that many of those available... or are there?
Anyone here who has any suggestions?
Regards,
Evert
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| Upgrading the OS on a TSM backupserver. Per.Lanvin@Inceritus.Com 17:21:06 |
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Hi,
I'd like to upgrade from the OS from Solaris 8 => 9 on a TSM backup
server.
Will a restore of /opt/tivoli be sufficient to comepletely recover the
TSM installation once the new OS is in place or are there other files I
need?
Is there a preferred way of doing manouvres like this one?
Rgds
/PL
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Monday, 14 August 2006
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| Seagate drive on SCSI ATA 133 board won't show in Disk Management Guest 19:59:27 |
| | I installed a Seagate 400GB hard drive with a Silicon Image Ultra-133
ATA Raid Controller card... now what? My Dell with Windows XP system
Device Manager *can* see the drive, but I can't see it under Disk
Management to assign a letter, format or partion the drive.
Not sure what other info is needed, I installed the card first, and the
driver from a supplied CD so that is working fine. Then I tried
starting the computer with no jumper in the new drive, and moved the
jumper to the other 3 slots, but that didnt help, and the Device
Manager always sees the Hard Drive as ST340063 3A SCSI Disk Device.
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| Adaptec 2940U(2)W question Peter Michel 19:06:50 |
| | Hi,
I need a scsi-adapter for use of all its 3 connectors. (2 intern and
the one extern)
As i remember, can the 2940UW only support 2 of its 3 at a time!?
Is this the same for the U2W?
How looks it for the 19160 and 29160?
Thanks lot for info
Cheers
Peter
F??r direkte email rot13 cebBETN-Yrvzra@jro.qr
oder entferne ".without-this" aus der Email-To. Danke!
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Sunday, 13 August 2006
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| Drive letter assignment for MSDs Ruediger Ihle 21:30:43 |
| | Hi folks,
can anyone enlighten me what magic OS/2 applies
when assigning drive letters to removable media ?
I have a non-LVM system in which I dedicate 5 drive
letters to USBMSD. Four are required for an USB -
attached card reader and one for a memory stick used
from time to time.
Now, if the memory stick is already present at boot
time, it usually shows up on the first of the removable
drive letter block. If it is connected later, it will
appear on the last drive letter most of the time. But
not always ! Especially if I booted to W*****s inbetween
and used the stick there, it may appear on some other
drive letter.
Even though the stick is perfectly accessable in all
cases, it's kind of annoying having to search for the
right drive letter all the time which even gets more
confusing, if some card is inserted in the reader as
well.
Any ideas ?
--
Ruediger "Rudi" Ihle [S&T Systemtechnik GmbH, Germany]
http://www.s-t.de
Please remove all characters left of the "R" in my email address
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| looking for a NAS device with a certain spec Buzzandbeyond 20:21:50 |
| | Hey,
I'm looking for a NAS that is able to do the following:
- 500gb
- web server
- print server
- itunes server
- smtp mail server
does this exist?
cheers
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| One Ultra320 drive and SCSI scanner - Controller? Mr Sandog 14:17:05 |
| | I want to run one Seagate Ultra320 (boot + OS + applications) drive and
one peripheral - an HP SCSI scanner.
Since my throughput requirements with one U320 drive won't be that
high, can't I simply use an Adaptec 39160 card?
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/scsi/ultra160/ASC-39160/
Won't a U160 bus be more than enough for one U320 drive? I would use
one channel for the HDD, and the other for the scanner...
The only other question I have is, that particular card only has 68-pin
connectors....can I get a 50-to-68 pin external adapter, and will that
work?
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| 24/7 rated 2.5" laptop hard disk GRios 07:15:16 |
| | Dear friends,
right now, i am having to build a small system that shall provide
firewall service for a local network. This computer is a specialized
box that support 2.5" laptop hard disks. Since, it will be running
nonstop, i am in need to buy a 2.5" 44 pin IDE ATA 100 hard disk for
such task. But i have a hard requirement: this disk must be rated 24/7
operation.
I have heard of two device: HITACHI E7K100 and E5K100. Other
brands/models are welcomed.
The prime question: where can i find a honest/reliable reseller that
deliver worlwide.
Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
Best regards.
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| Overheated Drive Repair Lee Hurd 04:32:56 |
| | The fan failed for my 3 seagate cheetah 10k drives I've had for 3-4 years
and they were operating at over 50c for a few hours before I caught it. I've
run diagnostics, chkdsk and checked the grown defect tables and no errors
and 4-5 grown defects come up. The only symptoms that something is wrong is
a Windows XP "delayed write failed" message during large file transfers, and
an impending drive failure message in Disk Manager.
Can anyone tell me what parts of a drive are damaged with overheating and
whether the repair costs are worth it?
Thanks for any help.
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| Help me keep this drive working long enough to rescue data from it... Brian Kendig 01:32:21 |
| | I've got a Seagate ST3200822AS SATA drive in an HP Media Center PC
m1170n. The drive's controller is ailing - when the drive works it
works slowly, but after it's in use for one or two minutes it suddenly
disappears from the bus, and the PC can no longer detect it (not even
in the BIOS menus) until I power off / power on. I've tried this drive
in two different PCs, and it has the same symptoms in each.
It's infuriating to have it work long enough for me to see the contents
of the drive, but not long enough for me to copy them off...
What's especially maddening is that when I boot from the SeaTools
(Seagate diagnostics) CD, it analyzes the drive for an hour or more,
and the drive remains online throughout. So I know the drive is capable
of working; I just don't know why it works for the diagnostics but not
for me!
I've tried setting PIO and DMA to their lowest settings, in the hopes
that maybe slowing down the data transfer rate would keep the drive
from going offline, but that hasn't worked.
I could use some ideas on this. Anyone have any suggestions on things I
could try to nurse the drive along long enough to pull data off it?
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| Transfer data from thinkpad to external drive Menefreghista 01:08:57 |
| | I want to use my external USB E Drive (80GB-no OS on it) to store all
uneccesary data from my 20GB notebook drive (the TP's drive is full). I
would like to get everything not needed on the Thinkpad over there. I
use the TP on a docking station as a PC, very seldom do I move it. Is
there a better way than dragging and dropping all of these folders? Not
to mention I have no idea which ones must stay on the TP's HD.
The external HD already has some data on it (pics-files etc).
I am using W2KPro.......
Gene
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Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| Re: External USB20 HDD writingspeed? Rod Speed 22:15:42 |
| | Pvest <no@mail.no> wrote:
I have a Maxtor 300Gb USB 2.0 harddrive and when I did> a benchmark (with FreshDevise), it gave med this speed:> Write 1.1 Mb/s,> Read 60.5Mb/s speed.
Try a different benchmark.
I also know that the spec for USB2.0 480Mbps, but not> really sure how to read different benchmark speed I get!?
Either the benchmark is having a massive brain fart
or there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
But can anybody confirm that a USB 2.0 writing-speed> on 1.1Mb/s is what I could expect,
No its not, it should be a hell of a lot better than that.
or is there anything wrong here??
Yep.
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| Palm Zire m150 works now Per Johansson 20:17:42 |
| | I have asked here before if it is possible to connect to Palm Zire
m150.
Good news is that it works now, with pilot-link-0.12.0-pre4-os2.zip,
current USB drivers and usbresmg.sys.
I can connect to the device and back up the files.
--
Per Johansson
Systems developer
http://per.johansson.name/
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| Strange, picky booter Guest 10:04:13 |
| | First of all, this is a very possibly hosed system. A smart guy at my
office "accidentally" kicked over his desktop. It is a Compaq EVO, 1.6
gb w/ 512 mb The hard drive was very toasted, and now I'm seeing if the
system can be salvaged.
1. When I hook up a known good 10 gb Maxtor with WinXP(different from
original) on primary IDE set as CS, the system POST's and immediately
goes to a blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
It will never boot the OS and jsut sits there, and the HD does not
sound very active. It does the same if soley hooked to the secondary
IDE as well. Tried setting it to Master in both configs, still not
working.
2. The system will detect a bootable CD-Rom, and boot to it. Tried
this with an XP OS cd, was even able to run the recovery console.
3. Installed a PCI IDE controller, disabled onboard controller,
checked IRQ's.
4. When hooking up the 10gb HD, system POST's, controller detects HD,
automatically reboots. The same happens when hooked to either the
primary or secondary controller on the installed IDE controller.
5. Double checked that 10 gb hard drive still boots in another system.
6. All hope was lost, UNTIL I decided to hook up some other HD's,
System successfully boots to a 7.5 gb Quantum Fireball with Windows ME
(sorry), as well as a 6 gb Maxtor with Windows 95. EVERY TIME, on both
the installed and onboard IDE controllers.
I have never had a system be picky about the OS, does it sound like the
system is just hosed, or does anyone know an explanation of why the
system refuses to boot an HD with XP?
Thank you for your assistance!
-Geoff
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| Want to take apart Ext. Maxtor HDD Abd08 07:03:40 |
| | Hi All,
Got me 2 x 250gig OneTouch Maxtor external drives. The time has come to
take apart the external enclosure, and use the drives in a RAID 1
config on a PC.
Anyhow, I really wanted to know if there was anything to be especially
careful/aware of when doing this. My main paranoia is that once the
case is off, the drives are going to have some kind of dodgy
proprietary interface/power connectors!
Thanks!!!
Rajiv
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| boot manager for NTFS Craig 04:51:06 |
| | I've been using Boot Manager from from powerquest and its been working
good with fat32 partitions, but now that all my partitions are ntfs
even if I create a small fat32 partition it doesn't boot the other o/s.
Does anyone know if the new boot manager/partition magic from symantec
works with ntfs? I'd like something that didn't rely on fat32
partitions. Also I tried the emergency disk with boot manager and it
was able to switch, I ended up having to restore my hd from an image.
Thanks,
Craig
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| Promise TX4000- two striped drives a goner or.... Fotoobscura 03:02:39 |
| | Hi.
I have a Promise TX4000 and had a drive that went dark (intentionally,
unplugged) for a few months. One day I went into the bios and noticed
I only had one drive and remember I unplugged it. I had also since
removed the drive.
Here's the dumb part:
Forgetting this wasn't a mirrored array for some reason I "initialized"
or maybe better put "made online" but did NOT format one of the two
drives in the stripe. I did *not* do anything, at least knowingly that
would hurt anything. No to all "are you sure you want to do this?"
sort of thing.
I then realised the err in my ways and plugged the second drive in. I
went back into the Promise BIOS and noticed both drives recognized as
striped and the right size. I booted into Windows and went to computer
manager to "mount" it. It was there but was acting as if both drives
were empty and unformatted.
This means, obviously, I did something stupid.
The question is- the data on both drives is technically still there but
of course written across separate disks in 64byte blocks. Is there a
way to "save" this stripe or rebuild the MBR for the stripe so I can
get this data back?
It seems to me that even a program like Ontrack to recover data (raw,
formatted, etc) may not work if it doesn't recognize the stripe.
Without recognizing the stripe I presume Ontrack will not know that
64bytes is on one drive, 64 on the other (or so I believe the striping
works).
I have a feeling that i'm not SOL providing I can re-create the stripe.
It seems to me that because the striping is a reoccurring process that
you can infer the stripe that needs to "span" the files on the drive.
So, before I wipe the two drives and make a new stripe and let things
fall as they may, can anyone suggest a way to recover this lost stripe?
Thanks for all info.
p.s. and no I don't have a backup but its not end-of-the-world if I
lose the data. (hence the stripe in the first place) 
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