Hi, on my xp home machine, i had a 40gig HD.I just added a second drive,an 80gig.The first 'c drive' was full up. I have transfered some files to the new drive, and now have a little breathing space to get system restore ect back. How do I get the new 'e drive' to just take up the job of storage...

Hi, How does the -E filename work with cpio? By example, I had an archive with about 5500 files in it of which I only needed three hundred. I am thinking that the command: cpio -iv -E filename /dev/st0 or similiar would extract only the files listed in 'filename'. Is this the correct...

I have a SNAP Server which won't reboot properly. Usually it will end up in the Recovery Console. This allows me to Upgrade/Repair my OS (which I've tried but doesn't help) or blow away my data (which I'm loath to do). So far as I can tell from the diags below it's still able to access...

Rodrick, I would at least entertain a system design from McDATA and Cisco. Have them give you an ROI pitch on their products as well. Consider the roadmaps of all 3 companies and compare that to your needs. I am surprised that you have had problems with your Hitachi. Are these drive failures or...

Mike, I also admin two ESS ("Sharks"). Usually, your storage vendor or an IBM rep will be able to perform a comprehensive performance analysis. Just curious -- how are you collecting these stats? Are you using IBM's ESS Expert 2.1.1? Brian J. Mitchell

Hi, Am considering recommending purchase of either an IBM DS300 or DS400 storage system for our environment. I've done a little reading on both, and understand the obvious differences (e.g. iSCSI for DS300, Fibre for DS400, more disks for DS400 etc), but I'd appreciate some advice on the specifics...

Hi, Anybody know the upcoming conferences on storage where the storage paper can be submitted now. Thanks in advance. Thanks & Regds, BABI

Hi! Can someone help me with this? Yesterday I was using a data recovery software, while Winamp is running, suddenly the machine turned off, after that it won't boot. My hard drive has some bad sectors and later I found out that the RAM was also a little bit faulty, It was replaced. Later I booted...

Does anyone having any details on how to remove a DLT 7000 drive from an ADIC 218? I have a stuck tape and i get an error code "29" (No Drive detected at boot). Any advice is appreciated.

I'm installing another SAN in a remote office to mirror the data from my main corporate SAN to the remote office. I only have to go about 1 mile and wondered, could I use my existing Multi-mode dark fibre (300m) with repeaters to extend the distance to the other builiding? I could then connect...

I am trying to decide between a XIOtech Magnitude 3D, IBM DS4300, and HP EVA 4000 SAN. I have scoured the web trying to find a site with some comparisons of at least two of them but haven't really found anything worthwhile. Does anyone have a link or links to some info that would help in my...

In an existing SAN with multiple Brocade fabrics we are in the process of deploying two new 4/256 directors. The existing fabrics are all 1 or 2Gbp switches with a mix of 2800, 2400 and 3900 models. No other 4Gb switches are present. As I understand it, the default routing policy for a 4/256...

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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...

Hi, I posted this other places as well, so let's see what kinda reaction I get here. My wife has a photography business out of the house and has been bugging me about putting together a backup solution for her pictures. She shoots mostly in RAW format so the amount of space I'm looking at is in...

Hi folks, Is anyone here using a UniTrends disk to disk backup solution? I'm considering implementing the DPU3000 and was hoping to get some general feedback. I'm currently using Veritas Backup Exec and a HP LTO tape drive for backups. The disk to disk solution seems like it would be light years...

I am using X-Windows to administer my Legato Networker 7.1.2. Prior to the server hardware upgrade (new machine), when we labelled previously labelled volume, there isn't any prompt for confirmation. With Networker re-installation, I am unable to switch off the label overwrite prompting. There...

We have a shark that serves three platforms (Windows, AIX, and mainframe). Recently we migrated from VSE to z/OS and the performance of the Windows on the shark has gone through the floor. I am collecting performance stats on the shark. Is there anyone available I can send these files to that can...

Has anyone been successful in using any flavor of AIT tape drive under USB, mapped through IDE? I know Sony makes an IDE version of the drive, and it's common these days to find cases that will map IDE/EIDE hard drives into USB 2.0. I assume those same casese could map an AIT IDE drive to the...

I have an Exabyte library w/ one AIT-1 drive and would like to know if it's possible to upgrade that drive to AIT-4, or would I need to replace the whole library?