Has anybody here made a homebrew NAS unit? I'm thinking something with a mini-ITX to keep the footprint and power consumption low. With a stripped-down version of linux, it could provide storage on the LAN via samba. RAID would be nice, but not a necessity. Or are there any commercially...

I are trying to backup a SQL database using multiple streams. I can shutdown the database using bpstart_notify.bat, both streams kick off and run, however when one stream finishes it restarts the database using the bpend_notify.bat script... This of course makes my...

The SCSI Standard (SPC2) said that if the target return 0xffffff for the READ_CAPACITY command, the initiator must send READ_CAPACITY_16. But I found that windows did not send READ_CAPACITY_16 at all, it send READ_CAPACITY 3 times and stop. Does Windows support SPC2?

The SCSI Standard (SPC2) said that if the target return 0xffffff for the READ_CAPACITY command, the initiator must send READ_CAPACITY_16. But I found that windows did not send READ_CAPACITY_16 at all, it send READ_CAPACITY 3 times and stop. Does Windows support SPC2?

The SCSI Standard (SPC2) said that if the target return 0xffffff for the READ_CAPACITY command, the initiator must send READ_CAPACITY_16. But I found that windows did not send READ_CAPACITY_16 at all, it send READ_CAPACITY 3 times and stop. Does Windows support SPC2?

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Hi all. I am currently setting up my first fabric. I want to add my existing simple fibre SAN setup to it. I just need a little bit of clarification / sanity check on what I am doing. Currently I have a simple point-to-point setup with a LSILogic Disk array with 2x controllers with 2x fibre...

Is there any way to visualize the output of the iostat command to assess number of I/O/sec, throughput, service time etc.? I will do some benchmarks with a new FC attached SATA Raid storage subsystem which is showing horrible slow performance and need a more thorough insight of disk activities,...

I urgently need memory cycle timings for CompactFlash, which are defined in the PC Card specification (formerly PCMCIA). However, I'm having trouble ordering the 13 volume PC Card specification (nobody home at PCMCIA.org). If you have the specification, I would be most grateful if you could...

Check this out for a bit of a challenge with your workmates! www.solutiontechnology.co.uk/exams.asp I only got 55% so I guess I'm not a guru - yet! Berg

I understand the concept of Classes of Serivce but my question is how many, and, what are they as there is lack of consistency amongst sites and publications. Here's a sampling: http://itpapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?scid=56&tag=tu.nu.ont.dir1&sortby=comp&docid=511 Class 1, Class 2 and Class...

Has anyone do a benchmark of RAID5 vs RAID10? I am looking for large sequential reads and writes... Thanks in advance... Clayton

My company is considering the purchase of an EMC Clariion unit for our OnDemand system. Has anybody implemented one recently (in the last year) and do you have success or failure stories? Thanks, John

Question on the SNIA Level 1 test objective "Names of protocols currently mapped to Fibre Channel" The following two books give me a diferent take as follows. Storage Area Network Fundamentals; Gupta This book splits them into channel and network: The channel protocols supported by the FC-4...

Beginner to SAN here, apologies. I'm looking into buying the new Dell entry level AX100 with 1.1TB of storage space. It will be attached by fibre to a Dell PowerEdge server. What is the best backup solution for me out there? tape? dlt? I'm on a tight budget and will be using Veritas.

Dang. Where can i go for help on this? I have these mystery tapes with ebcdic on them. I have novaxchange so i can read them. A lot of the text is right, but still, I get these goofy characters. They are there when I view the tape, and they are there after I convert it (supposedly convert it) what...

Hi all, Doe's anybody have had any experience with migrating data from EMC symmetrix to DMX arrays ? We use Solaris 8 (Kernel -27) with vxvm/vxfs 3.2 I'd be grateful to anybody who accept to show me one or more scenarios to do that. Thanks in advance.

Hi! I have just inherited two STK 9714 libraries; the problem is that the previous owner has removed all tape magazines. They seem to be hard to find, or really expensive. My budget is small so I thought I would try to manufacture the magazines myself. There is one small obstacle. I need pictures...

Some screenshots from Ranish partition manager: http://members.lycos.co.uk/muhaha1981/ I have manually converted the only primary partition on second disk to extended partition. Can anyone suggest why this partition works with FreeDOS and Windows XP, but errors out from DIR command in MS-DOS...

Hi All I am in the process of completely reconfiguring the companies SAN having convinced them that there current configuration is very poor. We have 2xLSI E2400's split across 2 sites 20 metres apart, I want to reconfigure one half of this setup. Jumping straight into the issue, there is no...