Hi, Does anyone know how to list unused standard devices via a symcli command. Any help would be much appreciated. Ben

Neil Rothwell wrote in message ... On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:01:54 +0000, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, well I'm looking at that now. I guess what the route of the problem is that...

Hello, when we bought our HP MSL6030 tape library about two years ago we also ordered a set of HP branded LTO2 tapes with it. About half of these tapes now start to present crc errors on verify (Veritas BackupExec). Can anyone recommend a LTO2 tape brand that they have good experience with (weekly...

Is there anything to say about the maximum number of drives you should connect to a Ultra320 channel on a RAID controller (for a single RAID5 set)? Modern Ultra320 10.000RPM drives have a throughput between 59 and 118MB/s (according to Seagate datasheets). Does this mean you can only have 3 to 5...

On a modern server system (mid-range HP server with HP Smart Array 640x 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X controller and 15.000rpm drives) will the read performance still increase with the number of drives used? Is there a "sweet spot" of the number of drives to be used? Or do other factors come in play on...

I need to build a new database server (SQL server on new HP or Dell hardware) and I have a question about the disk subsystem. I want to separate the OS, logfiles and database files on separate disk arrays. The OS will be placed on RAID1 on the machine's internal RAID controller. I intend to install...

Dear group, we're in the very, very, very early stages of looking at iSCSI SAN. We've seen the SUN 7210 that can be configured with 48 250GB SATA disks. Two are used for OS. How would one configure the remaining disks? If using RIAD50, how many disks can/would you use per RAID5 group? Thanks.

Hello, we have a Compaq/HP MSL6030 tape library (with one LTO2 drive) that is connected to a dedicated Ultra320 SCSI card on a Compaq ML370 (PIII 933Mhz/256MB). We use BackupExec 9.0 on Windows 2000 with the Veritas tape drivers. The best backup transferrate we see (on a local RAID5 disk set...

Hi, See also my previous post "Alternative for NetApp F825c (for CIFS & iSCSI)" We currently have 2 Windows fileservers, a Exchange mailserver and a MS-SQL database server. Our network is all Windows (servers and workstations). We expect to grow to 6TB in 5~6 years (mail 20%, databases 5% and...

So we've been looking the NetApp F825c and it will no doubt do the job but it's a *tad* expensive and also I don't like the whole RAID4 thing. Can someone suggest a reliable alternative for the NetApp F825c that can grow up to 6TB and has enough Ethernet expansion ports and also has a way to...

I know that Windows 2000 and 2003 server can be a iSCSI host but can you setup a Windows machine as iSCSI server? In other words can you use Windows to create some sort of SAN/NAS device that services it's disks to other Windows hosts via iSCSI? -- Thanks! Benno...

Hello, I'm about to reconfigure the disks on some of our servers and I was wondering if anything can be gained (performance wise) by choosing none default RAID stripe sizes. The servers are Compaq ML370's with SmartArray 5300 controllers. Two of them will have have six 36GB drives in RAID5 and...

Due to applications as the SAP client and AutoCAD 2002 our users roaming profiles contain thousands of very small files. I have noticed that the average transfer rate of those small files (~350Bytes in size) over the network is extremely slow compared to normal to large sized files (300KB up to a...

I'm looking for a (1U or 2U) Intel server that has an internal RAID 0&5 controller (SATA or IDE) and can hold 4 drives (250, 300GB) and has a DVD drive or a NAS with the same specs. Or a 19" (RAID 0&5) rack that can hold at least 4 STAT/IDE drives that I can connect to an existing server via SCSI...

Dear all, I'm trying to find out the exact layout of an MFT record. I understand the record structu | Standard information | Name | Data | Empty | However, I would like to know what every single byte in the record does.....

Sys: Linux Suse 8.2, KDE 3.1.4 How do I read DD-floppies. It seem that the 720Kb filesystem isn't working on my system. It worked on previous versions of Suse. I need to transfer files from Amiga to my PC, using a DD-floppy (720Kb)formatted with MS-DOS filesystem. My Amiga can do that, but my...

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My company is closing down, so we're selling our storage array: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5748643397 If you have any question, e-mail me or give me a call. Thanks, Bernard ------ Bernard Normier

EMC supports now IBM's (AIX) MPIO with usage of "defauly PCM for fibre attached Symmetrix devices." "CLARiiON support is targeted in the near future". (Readme on ODM entrys for AIX, EMC document). Is Powerpath still needed when AIX MPIO is used on EMC stirage devices (technical question, not a...

Is it true that ide hard drives perform slower than sata ones? I'm upgrading my system to Asus A8N-SLI, AMD ATHLON 64 3200 VENICE CORE, GAINWARD 6600GT SLI-PCI-E, 256Mb, (2X512MB CRUCIAL,DDR400,PC3200). I'm not sure which hd will suit the system best. A friend also told me that SATA hd can be...