Hi, All the SATA data cables I find have female connectors on both ends. I need an SATA adapter or SATA cable with two male SATA connectors, such as the one found on the back of an SATA hard drive. I don't care about the power SATA connector. Does anyone make/sell this ? I have been googling for...

I have a tape library that has '3495K' tapes? What is the capacity of these tapes and where (IBM?) can I read more about the tape charactistcs? Mike

Hi, Using EMC Navisphere, when you add or create a new host, Navisphere asks for a 16-byte piece of information. I have the impression that this is suppose to be the 8-byte WWNN concatenated with the 8-byte WWPN for the HBA port on the host, something...

Sun has built one of the broadest lines of scalable, highly available storage products on the market today. Check out the latest storage announcements from Sun; you'll find these serious storage technologies and services deserve a look. Read...

If you ever opened a hard drive, you will see a couple of platters and an arm that has a head for each surface. So if 2 platters, then 4 surfaces and 4 heads. The arm moves the heads across the platters and the platters rotate, so any spot on the disk can be seeked with both movement...

Hi, I have the opportunity to do some "on the job learning" during the next week or so with some SAN equipment, and I was hoping that you all here could help me get through some of the initial rough spots. The SAN is an almost fully loaded EMC (CX700, I think). From what I've been told, it has...

Ok, im posting here some questions i have about raid cards, mostly what i thought they did, what i want them to do (if possible) and what i think they do. if there is a faq somewere that answers one or more of these questions then please post away. alright i bought a raid card...

Hi First of all, what is the difference between a RAID controller and a RAID card. Promise (www.promise.com) seem to have two product ranges of the above products. And also, what is the best RAID controller/card (not just promise) to go for, that won't slow the performace of my PC in any way,...

Hi, I'm trying to find some technical info re serpentine seek technology which is apparently now used in some disk drives. Western Digital apparently use "serpentine seek" technology in some of their drives. I believe this is the same track ordering that is described...

Hi all ! can anybody tell me how to restore the 'factory' settings for the qla2200 ? I've got the following problem : I have an Windows2000 Server with 2 QLA2200 installed. After a reset of the server last week i 'lost' one Adapter in the

Hi all, In a network environment it's possible to team/trunk multiple lines between switches and/or hosts to one virtual single connection boosting throughput. Is this also possible in a san environment? I ask this because I've recently obtained a Dell Powervault 660F wich is configurable with...

I'm looking for a reasonably HA NFS solution (ie. a "NAS" nowadays) which will support ACLs on NFS v3 (as well as the usual redundancy, VLANing, GigE, etc.). This is for Solaris and Redhat NFS clients, which both support the "almost POSIX" NFS ACLs (different than those of NFSv4). A company...

Hi all ! I hope you can help me with a _big_ problem i'm currently having with a SAN Installation. Here's the rough Setup : Novell server========|| Novell Server=======Brocade Silkworm 3800----| Win2K Server=======Brocade Silkworm 3800----D173 Disk

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I have an Archos Mini CD-RW writer machine which I have used to successfully format and write onto a Harmonic CD-RW disk using InCD software. The Harmonic disk (which was actually supplied with the Archos machine) has the following specifications: 650 MB/74 min; 1x,2x,4x; Compact Disk ReWritable;...

Dear all, Does anybody know what is the meaning of the A_I parameter display on the View configuration menu of the 9940 STK drives ?? I already tried to look at all the documentation of the drive and found no reference to this parameter. Thank you for your Help, Hugo

As a home user I am in need of a budget solution. As a RAID newbie I'm in need of a little bit of advice. The background - I need to get a lot of data onto a lot of drives as quickly as possible, and it has to be done via 100Mbps ethernet. The ethernet is my current bottleneck and I intend to...

X-No-Archive: Yes Anyone know what's the modern high capacity rewritable media that can be written in a manner like a floppy drive using drag 'n drop that is very reliable? I'd like something that can be permanently archived and can be used over and over again without a significant reliability...

hello, i use arcserve 6.5 on a windows nt 4.0 sp6 machine. the backup works fine (no error in the log file) but i have an error 3841 when i try to restore any file that are located on the second or third session on the tape. I am sure that the all the files are on the tape. The file in the first...