Hey I am working for the editorial board of a PC magazine. I heard news that there is this free online game that has only been running for 717 days and has already 285,314 registered players by way of winning cash. Can anyone help find out whether its true? Here is the link I...

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Hi, recently I was able to buy an old Tape Library for myself at home. I wasn't able to test it (and I was expecting problems ;) but I wanted to test it. It has the lable "transtec 7500" in the front of the machine, it has one DLT-Drive in it and it can store up to 9 DL-Tapes in it. But when I...

Hi, we have a problem with a HP MSA1000. We start to install the MSA1000, but when conntecting to to CLI we got the following errors the whole time. Maybe somebody can help us ? Do somebody know the meaning of the error (we haven't found it any hp-manuel)

Plain and simple terms: It won't load itself. We are using Arc Serve 2000, and Windows 2000 server. It won't even load the original tape itself, you have to manually tell it to load and unload each tape. It will only do one at a time. Any help would be great.

I have a Compaq Storage System U2 SCSI drive rack (12 bay) that currently has a wide-ultra I/O card with two separate channels, each controlling 6 drives, but allows the creating of a single 12 drive RAID. I have seen that Compaq's 4100 series drive rack seems to use a very similar form-factor of...

I'm looking to build a media server to hold all of my DVDs. I need a RAID card with Online Capacity Expansion. I need to be able to do two things related to this: 1) I would like to start with 4 250GB drives in a RAID5. Eventually, I would like to add more 250GB drives to the array without...

Hi all, One of our clients in the managed hosting space with data centers nationwide has an immediate need for a Support Engineer with expertise in Backup and Storage technologies - especially Veritas Backup Products. This is a customer facing role, so previous experience supporting customers is...

I am unable to achieve much more then 1.2:1 compression ratio on my backups. I run Windows 2000 and use Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 and a mixture of Compaq 50/100 and Sony SDX2-50C 50/100 tapes. I have tried compression settings of "hardware first, then software" as well as "software only". Any help...

dear ng i have a external compaq sdlt 110/220 gb (scsi lvd/se) with a adaptec 29160 scsi-adapter running on a w2k3 server. windows does not recognize the streamer. can you please help: 1) do i need a terminator for the sdlt drive ? 2) do i need a special scsi cabel to connect the drive to the...

Im doing image backups over my home LAN 100baseT to a Dell Dimension P3 600 XP SP2, 640mb, to USB 2.0 PCI card to 250G external harddrive. During this backup time, CPU utilization on the P3 Server is 100% and network is 20%. If I do the identical backup to a installed HD on the same P3 PC the...

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Will I experience significantly faster exchange on my home LAN then with 100baseT thats there now? Is there a bottle neck limitation in the PC that limits the max amount of effective throughput to the point where it wont make much difference to hang a GIGABIT LAN around it? I have 4 PCs on a home...

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I have an old company Dell PII laptop that has Window 2000 on it. I dont have the password and want to use it as backup server to run some external HDs. What is the cheapest way to get a fresh OS install so I can have full control of the PC? Is Linux cheap to buy as OS and will it look and feel...

I'll adding new disk from the EMC SAN and I am wondering if it's possible to able to mount the new disk without rebooting. So far fdisk or sfdisk will not see the newly presented disk with a reboot.

Currently have a 2810SA with 4 250G hard drives in a Raid 5 configuration. I've realized that if I continue to put 250G drives up to the maximum of 8, I will not be able to take advantage of full 2T drive limit of XP. I would like to upgrade the drives to 300G (possibly 400G). What is the best...

What are people using to test IO for storage arrays from unix hosts? Direct scsi or fiber, not ethernet. Thanks. ~F

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questions on how to configure linux on the san Here is a how-to on I did it. I am still testing performance. I will let you know my results. Currently I have successfully install Compaq DL380 on brocade san with a dual channel emulex LP9000 Emulex Driver Install To support a framework,...