I was advised that in addition to fdisking and formating a hard disk drive I should do the following, then fdisk and format again. Are the following instructions a sure-fire way of erasing data? Many thanks. ----- Enter the following lines at the debug prompt (-) followed by the enter key. Note:...

I have a brand new IDE drive (250GB Maxtor) that has a sector that consistently triggers a CRC error on read. I find this puzzling, as I thought IDE disks were supposed to automatically remap bad sectors. And always have in my past experience. However, this is not the first time that I come across...

We have an LTO 100GB/200GB drive backing up a variety of data spread across ~5 servers. We also backup a few local directories on development PCs "just in case". We're currently running an ancient copy of ArcServeIT 6.61 on NT4 for which the support contract ran out ages ago :-) The ArcServe host...

Hi all, I have a customer who needs a backup solution ( most likely tape ) for a Windows 98 Workstation.. The budget is fair and I would like to put something in that would have some form of disaster recovery so that if the drive fails I can replace it and restore the entire system to the last...

Someone is asking me to try to restore the data on the drive, I don't have it with me yet. How about the OS? Is it Linux or proprietary? TIA

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...

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.

We've just installed a new FC SAN and I've just got a couple of questions about some issues we're seeing. Basically we've got single ported dual controller's connected to 2 switches. Each host has a single HBA connected to a switch. The switch is fabric enabled and both are interconnected. Our...

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'm trying to figure out how many servers I can connect to a direct attached hard disk SCSI array. I've been told its only two - is this true? Cheers, Ken

Being relatively new to fibre channel, I need to gain more awareness of what works and what to expect. Maybe some gurus here on usenet can help. I discovered that my Sun X6730A (FC100/S) card will not correctly communicate with a Clariion FC5700 DPER. I don't understand why. Doesn't everyone...

I have a couple of Crossroads 10k storage routers that are giving me nothing but grief. 98% of all issues with the setup are due to these. The setup is: netapp -- brocade switch -- crossroads -- tape drives Idea is simple but implementation has been murder. I'm curious if anyone is using...

I was wondering if you gurus could share some impressions regarding the best media type for data archival. In particular which media type would you trust for archival of important data you wish to take off-line 10 or 15 years. Would you suggest tape like DLT or some optical disk or MO? I'm...

Hi, one of our customers in detroit has to deal with concurrent access from different operating sytems to the same data structures (CAD/CAE and Lotus Environment). We currently solved this problem with over 200 TB of NAS Filers - but this didn't solve the problem of having the data in a lot...

Hi All, Anyone familiar with NetApp Filers? I'm trying to find out if NetApp Filers support some sort of management software interface, such as Microsoft's WMI (WEBM implementation) that would allow the management of file system entities (from volumes down to the file level). Thanks!

hi we have an iSCSI protocol loaded on NetApp machine that holds several Qtrees we already configured a windows 2003 machine with iSCSI initiator and recognized the iSCSI target on the NetApp Machine. BUT how can i make the iSCSI space (allocated on the NetApp) not beeing presented as an Image file...

Has anyone managed to disable the hardware compression on the Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive ? I just maxed out the tape at 116 GB. I suspect that I might get better compression from my Backup Exec software. Thanks, Lynn McGuire

Hi, My organisation is in the early stages of selecting a SAN solution. I've been asked to assist by researching certain issues. For context, our high-level requirements are for a SAN solution with initially 5TB capacity, which will then be replicated across 2 sites, distance between sites is...

Storage guru's, I am looking for some help on improving my SAN knowledge/exposure . Though I work on Unix and Solaris I havent had lot of chance to work on Stuff like EMC/Clarion/Brocade/Netapp stuff. I have looked at the individual website for education costs and they are above my budget.We do...

I have video file about 750 MB and can not record it on CD-R that have capacity just 700 MB. What is the ways to solve this problem. Thank everybody for help.