Does anyone have or know of a good whitepaper on this topic? I am looking into certification and thought it would be a good place to start. Thanks.

Hi, I'm writing some piece of open source software that needs a partition library which runs on both Windows and Linux. The library should be able to resize a fat-partition on an USB-device (iPod) and create a new partition (from an image-file) on the released disk space. I've already searched...

While searching the Google archives I came across this post made to this NG on Sept. 3, 2001 which bears reposting. It's a classic. .... Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants, alt.disasters.misc, comp.arch.storage From: (Thor Lancelot Simon)

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 whethe - the CX300 is just a scaled down version of the CX700 or the firmware is different and so on. - what...

Hi We're developing a Digital Video Surveillance system using DM642. We're interfacing external PCI enabled USB controller (from Philips ISP1561) to our board containing DM642. The application is to store the recorded video to USB Flash Drive (The USB Key). The RTOS used is DSP/BIOS from TI. I'd...

Let me answer this again, as I don't think the last one showed up in the right place. IMHO, tape shredding is your only real answer. You should use a commercial tape shredding solution. They're availalbe from your offsite vaulting vendor (e.g. Iron Mountain). They will give you a certificate of...

Hello, Will some one please let me know about a good tool to stress the disk subsystem on NAS/SAN??? It will be good if I can vary the IO or CPU load to disk subsystem and it should be light on the client/server running this tool. Thanks a lot.

Hi all, In my office, I have a Sony TSL-A400C AIT Autoloader unit with a built-in AIT-1 drive unit SDX-400C. Additionally we've got a Sony StorStation AITe260/S AIT-3 drive unit. I need additional backup storage, and I wondered, does anyone know if it's possible to take the AIT-3 bits our of the...

IMHO, tape shredding is your only real answer. You should use a commercial tape shredding solution. They're availalbe from your offsite vaulting vendor (e.g. Iron Mountain). They will give you a certificate of destruction and shred the entire tape, cartridge and all. You can place about 10...

Hi, I'm building a new system with 4 hard drives and i have to chose between a raid 0+1 or a raid 5 setup. This is for home use which means i don't care if the system goes down in the case of a hard drive failure but i want at least minimal data security so i ruled out raid 0. I'd say that...

Hi I've just installed a 250GB SATA HDD plus a SATA PCI card and I want to use the new drive for storage. I installed the drivers for the PCI card when prompted and now I need to format the new hard drive I believe, but I'm terrified of making a mistake. I did go into "Disk Management" and right...

Hi, I want to implement a module which retrieves switch configuration info using SNMP. The configuration data which we would be interested a zone data, port info, firmware version, switch wwn, isl data, name server etc. We have few queries: 1. Using SNMP, can we retrieve zone info from brocade...

Hello, when we bought our HP MSL6030 tape library about two years ago we also ordered a set of HP branded LTO2 tapes with it. About half of these tapes now start to present crc errors on verify (Veritas BackupExec). Can anyone recommend a LTO2 tape brand that they have good experience with (weekly...

Hi Guys !! I have a Sun Solaris 5.8 in a Sunfire V880 machine with Veritas Netbackup 4.5 I was start the backup for the fist time and I recieved the following error: unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available - error status(96). The medias are "available" in the...

Hi NG, is it possible, to use the Quantum (or HP) firmware on a Tandberg streamer? The streamer is a DLT8000. Regards, Bernd.

How feesible would it be to start a storage consulting company this day an age, I know the consulting arena is pretty much dominated by the big consulting firms such as IBM,Accenture,KPMG etc.. but how is the market for smaller storage consulting firms especially in the FCIP/SAN arena? I'm also...

Dear all, I have a strange problem in HP NAS 4000. I have 2 NAS4000 and there is a mount point in NAS-A(e.g. D:\) is shared to other HP-UX.So every HP-UX can share the same mount pt(e.g. \SHARE). NAS-B is in backup and it's D:\ will be replicate with NAS-A. However, every time I unzip the file...

So I have been around the block with my 2 TB Lacie NAS. When I try to boot it, I get a message that it cannot find the operating system. I know that if I use the CD that came with the NAS, it will erase everything on it. Anyone know of a way to run a diskcheck or repair the MBR on this thing?

Hello, I have an DLT-IV Tape which contains data for restore. I don`t know which Backup Programm was used for write the data. I got the tape from a company that no longer exists. Does anyone knows a tool which can detect the format or the Software of the written data. I tried NTBackup-Win2k,...

In Profile Properties - Backup Selections you can chose "folder name" or "pre-defined folder". The docs talks about "..predefined folder that the DLO administrator has defined". But the docs does NOT mention _how_ to create a pre-defined folder. I would like to make a predefined folder for the...