backed up hard drive, cleaned out system and now the system is stuck with the Restoration Disk at the HELPSPOT ...running since 10 Hrs. and no stop insight

I have a RAID1 with a Silicon Image SATA controller sil3114. Often, my PC bluescreens (that caused data corruption on my previous HD so I switched to RAID1). The SATARAID utility reports in such cases always an "event" (exceeding S.M.A.R.T status) and starts rebuilding. Incidentally, the same...

Hello everyone - I am a corporate recruiter with CTS (www.ctsinc.net) and wanted to get in touch with Enterprise Solaris engineers and thought this group was a good place to start. I know that some sites don't like to get these types of postings so if that is the case - just let me know! We are...

Good morning, a friend of mine have inserted this post on a Forum I created on my site www.etantonio.it/en , this is the question : "Someone knows something about LTA/WTA circuits? I mean the best approach to the problem, the best topology and all that can be usefull to design an accurate and...

We have a SCSI drive with the OS on it and want to setup a raid array to store non-OS files. We bought some HighPoint Rocket Raid 100 cards (our motherboards supports only up to 100ATA) and two IDE drives per card. When the RocketRaid card is connected to the IDE drives, the SCSI OS drive doesn't...

Anyone have recommendations for reliable IDE cards? I'm looking to replace my Promise controllers due to annoying errors posting as system events every hour. (Time sync error or whatever. It's a known problem with Promise controllers) Lately I've been getting the above error along with a second...

I am having weird problems. I have a Windows 2000 host that has access to a bunch of LUNs. From time to time, when I remove a drive letter and readd the letter, if I try to access the disk, I get: "H:\ The system cannot find the device file specified." Any ideas as to how or why this might...

Hi , I'm new to Legato Networker and am trying to get a backup of a SQL server cluster to work on W2K. Have put the -a virtual server option in the job an dthe user I'm connecting with is in al lthe relevent groups. Agent is installed on the cluster. But all I get is the following error *...

We have a RAID-5 using the md driver in FC3 with two drives marked failed. However, we think both drives are in fact good, and the problems were intermittent only. We'd like to recover yesterday's updates from the array. Is there a way to force the array to mount? I note that there is a "--force"...

We are in the process of setting up a SAN of 2TBs and we are trying to decide between these two systems. EVA3000 permits virtualraid. IBM? For example, with 14 discs, EVA permits me to make a lun, partition it in different raid types to use it in the distinct servers. IBM? Can anyone help out?...

I am looking for a path fail-over product for SUSe Linux 9. I have four DL380(G4)'s each with two QLogic QLA 2340-E-SP attached to two McData 4500 switches. These are connected to an EMC Clariion CX500 array. EMC's PowerPath is not certified on SUSe 9. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rick

I having this problem with backups using Ghost 9. For some reason it keeps wanting to do only baseline backups and not incrementals (which are much smaller). I have noticed that if I dont turn of the PC between backups that it seems then to do an incremental. But if I power off between backups it...

Hello All, I'm trying to create a home storage lab where I can setup clustering, HA, etc.... This is what I have so far: 1 - Clariion DAE_R/W 10 - 9.1GB drives 2 - Emulex LP8000/GBICs 1 - VIXEL Rapport 1000 Fibre Channel 7-Port Hub

Hi all, thanks in advance for all help that is offered. Two questions: 1. Is is possible to setup an IBM 3583 tape library with a single drive in "sequential mode" or does it only work in "random access mode"? 2. Does anyone have any sample tapeutil scripts for managing a 3583 tape library? All...

Hi, I'm trying to create a home for a database. The database will ultimately reach approximately 200Gb in size. Usage patterns will consist of approximately 80% read, 20% write. The vast majority of the reads will require random access to small chunks of data (less than 64k). Two SQL Server...

Hello. I'm trying to update the archive strategy of our small graphics department. First, the environment is not server centric: each designer works on files stored on his computer. To archive files, the designer uploads a finished job to shared folder on a server. Then, an administrator burns...

I have an option to buy a HDS 9900, model 9960. No HD but has 2 FC cards and 1 GB or RAM I belive. Does any one know a ball park price for this unit Jay

I've been having trouble with my Promise ATA controllers (known BIOS issues that Promise apparently doesn't want to fix), so I'm looking for a replacement. I was originally looking at Adaptec's model 1233, but haven't been able to find it locally. Someone recommended "silicon image" but I haven't...

Stealth Start Up NAS appliance company with a clever way to scale NAS storage to deal with data migration and global name space issue is looking for NAS admins for a Focus Group in Portola Valley on April 5th. Reply to this email with your relevant experience. Ideal background for participants...

Does anyone make a rackmountable drive array that is cheap and uses hotswap Serial ATA drives? I know about the Adaptec 2410SA , but does anyone make a larger external enclosure that can hold 10+ SATA drives? I am interested in RAID enclosures as well, but I would be happy with a JBOD...