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What's the recommended life of an LTO-1 tape? Thanks, Rob.

Hi all! I like to connect 2 _independent_ disks to aha2120 to make a diskdump from harddisk1 to harddisk3. For this action I obviously have to attach each disk to an individual array to make these disks visible to any os. So, when I attached 2 disks (hd1 and hd2) to 2 arrays and then replace...

Following a local shops complete destruction of my computer, I am faced with recovering data from what WAS a perfectly good WD 3 gig IDE drive that now (according to them) reports FAT errors. (My big mistake was trusting them to replace a dead power supply and cd-rw). I am considering using PC...

Hi, I connected my server to MSA1000 via a FC (emulex) and installed ACU. when I open the ACU on the server I can't see the MSA1000, it writes two messages: -a hardware failure occured. -using unsupported driver. When I installed the diadnostic tool on the server it showed me the status:

Hi. I have an HP MSA1000 with 9 drives. Eight of the physical drives are configured across 4 logical drives, with the last physical drive reserved as an online spare. I installed three additional drives into the SAN Chassis last night. Nothing more. When I came in this morning to expand some of...

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...

Hello everybody. I want to write a script to connect on a switch and get information as switchshow and portshow. In tne past, I use expect to connect and get information in a file. Is there any other way ? Thanks in advance Gilles

I have a client running BE v8.6 for SBS on their server. This has been working flawlessly for a couple of years. Suddenly, nothing will backup. The job completes successfully in about 10 seconds and the log says: Backed up 0 files in 0 directories. This happens whether we try to use backup...

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Hi all, Can anyone help me? I have a RAID 5 drive on an Adaptec 2010S that has failed. I have tried to replace it with 3 drives and it will not rebuild. I have zaped it, low level formatted it, ensured they were the right capacity and still all have failed the format. When I zap them and rebuild...

I posted in another group but didn't get any responses. Running a Win2000 domain (all standard edition). We want to fully replicate data between 2 member servers and have one as a failover for the other. So basically, server A goes down, we want Server B to be renamed to Server A automatically...

Hi All, I am looking for SATA/SAS stand alone serdes with 10b parallel (or any interface)interface on primary side. Do you know of any available ? Thanks, Purvesh

What is good quality media for DVD-R today? I've got a round of TDK's that seem to suck pretty bad. ~F

I am looking for a path fail-over product for SUSe Linux 9. I have four DL380(G4)'s each with two QLogic QLA 2340-E-SP attached to two McData 4500 switches. These are connected to an EMC Clariion CX500 array. EMC's PowerPath is not certified on SUSe 9. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rick

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Hello everyone, Has anyone had any luck finding an audit trail for the EMC Automated Resource Manager product? We'd like to see what the agents are doing, and go back to these audits when there are problems to see who should get fired :) Just a joke. We whip, we don't fire. :) Ideally it is a...

We have a DLT8000 (HP SureStore DLT 80) which is connected to a desktop PC with a normal ATA hard disks. The SCSI controller is Adaptec 29160 U160 and the tape drive is the only device on it. The cable is the default that came with the drive (LVD/SE around 1 meter long). Backing up from the hard...

I've been out of the network admin side of things for two years. I've recently started working as a net admin for a company and one of my primary responsibilities is backup. When I was responsible for this I was using Legato and Arcserve, backing up to tape. In the new position I will be setting...