Hi guys I have a bit of a problem I have a 300 gig harddrive. It has a 288 gig partiton that has 158 gigs free. I was wondering if there was a way to partition some of that free space into another partition without formating or losing my files.I have vista on the other 12 gigs of this HD and win xp...

Pardon my question, I am a beginner in NDMP land. We are developing a snapshot file system that can track the files which changed since the previous snapshot. Pathnames of those changed files can be listed with a special command. Now I have two questions: Can I give one of the commercial NDMP...

I have several Netapps that I currently back up with a Certance LTO Library and Bakbone software. The trouble is that the Certance and Netapp R200 are not compatible for direct attached SCSI, so all of my data has to go over the network to the backup host and then to Tape. Yuck. Does anyone know...

Hi all, Is anyone aware of studies that have been done to measure the performance overheads that result from using a filesystem? We want to know the performance loss that we would suffer using a filesystem like FAT16 on a ramdisk versus using the memory as it is (raw reads and writes to memory,...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone has seen this message before and if they could point me in the right direction. Trying to determine if this error message is more specific to Qlogic HBA's, Hitachi Storage, or a Brocade Switch (all in our SAN). ----------------------------------------- WARNING:...

The most weird thing happened in our hsg80 today. I was trying to connect to the CLI using the maintanance port, however couldn't see any startup banner. I've checked all my terminal configuration options and it was according to reccomended in the guide. Frustrated, I've reseted one of the...

Im trying to install windows 2003 server on one of my computers and the problem i am having is that when its done formatting and it starts to install the windows components it freezes the install exactly at 34 mins. Ive tryed this several times but i keep getting the same problem. Anyone occur this...

Looking at my partitions with Partition Expert, I have the following: PARTITION LTR CAPACITY FREE TYPE TYPE-No. NBR LINUX NO 80GB NTFS F 15.27GB 2.3GB NTFS 7h 5 HDB5 UNALLOCATED-------------7.844MB LINUX / 7.83GB 5.05GB EXT3 ...

Do anyone have access to a HP Ultrium460 SCSI-Reference? I urgent need information about the Mode Select Command (0x15) and how it's implemented in that drive. If you can forward me a copy (pdf) of that Manual or give me a download link, that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance, Rene...

Hi, I have joined a site with a currently very complex backup setup with 3 HP SAN's (2 HSG's 1 EVA). They are currently using business copy to snapshot drives onto the main backup server to backup using backupexec across fibre. This is fine but along side this some 6 oracle servers are also using...

Does the Sun Storedge Traffic Manager support EMC DMX3 devices? How does SVM handles the multipathing in case if the metadevice is created on one path and that fails? I understand that the psuedo device naming convention takes care of the meta devices in case if they are Sun Storage devices. As of...

Hi All, Supposing i partition a tape library into two logical libraries, can i assign both the logical libraries to the same server? If its possible, how does an application differentiate between the two logical library instances. i.e Would the device identification or serial number sent for a...

Hi... has anyone looked into njini.com? They have some sort of ILM product... I am looking for feedback on it... How does this relate to rainfinity from EMC? Is njini a better way of doing abstraction and migration? Jon.

We're considering purchasing an IQ1000, and would appreciate any experiences positive or negative. We're hoping to use it with 3 servers and Oracle grid. Thanks, Josh

Hi storage gurus, I have a HP FC-AL controller to control a RAID box (at the moment just a bunch of drives). If this one controller breaks, do I have to use the SAME controller to access the drives or can I just use ANY other FC-AL controller like the QLA2100 (qlogic) ? This question came up...

Are there any free Content Addressable Storage filesystems for Linux yet? Followups are directed to comp.arch.storage. Thanks!

Hi Group While using a USB 2 enclosure and 2.5" 40Gig HDD the PC hangs while booting. The drive works well if plugged in hot. Is this a common problem? TIA

We have two McData 4500 switches connected to CX500. We're adding an HP c-class blade enclosure with two Brocade switches. Should I use the Brocade Access Gateway or ISL trunks to connect them? Either way I have to buy some options/licenses; with access gateway included on the brocades I need to...

Hello Group, Does anyone in the group know what the max IOs an HBA like an emulex lp9002 or Qlogic QLA2300 is capable of. Thanks, Vic

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