We have a SCSI drive with the OS on it and want to setup a raid array to store non-OS files. We bought some HighPoint Rocket Raid 100 cards (our motherboards supports only up to 100ATA) and two IDE drives per card. When the RocketRaid card is connected to the IDE drives, the SCSI OS drive doesn't...

Hi, I've been looking about at various scsi hard drives and controllers with the intent of buying one for my work desktop, the task is going to require alot of repeated disk access so the quicker the better so i've assumed that a 15,000rpm Ultra320 type is my best bet. However i have no idea about...

Dear all, I'm looking for a SCSI controller to use with my IBM Magstar library. To control my Magstar library you've to use HVD (high voltage differential) SCSI controller, and not more usual LVD. A good one is the Adaptec AHA-2944UW (HVD), but it has a normal PCI (33mhz) connector. In our server...

If you stick enough hard drives together, you can easily surpass 2 terabytes of combined space and if you try to connect them via SCSI, you will apparently not see all your space. That's because host bus adapters from Adaptec and LSI Logic can't see anything larger than 2 terabytes. I am using a...

I have several Seagate disks here which complain about scsi parity errors : 0x20000004cf246cf8 lun 0x0 cmd 0x2a status 0x2 err 0x70 seg 0x0 byte2 0xb info 0xc37000 alen 10 csi 0x0 asc 0x47 ascq 0x0 fru 0x3 sks 0x8 I was wondering how, when using FCP (scsi over FC), these errors can occur ? Fibre...

Can I use the U320 disk like Seagate Cheetah with LVD 160 controller (Adaptec 29160)? Or will I need the new controller and cable for the U320 disk? For now, this controller works fine with IBM UltraStar DDYS-T18350M disk. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

Hello I have installed qla2310 adapter in sunfire with solaris 8. After the installation of driver for QLA2310 there I can see disks on the switched storage EVA but there is still problem I cannot have activ more than one path to the disk. I have installed SFS_base_packages.S8.tar.Z in which is...

I have a few questions but let me first give a quick background. I have an MS SQL server that is having an IO bottleneck. Disk space isnt much of an issue since the database is only about 10gig, but I'd like to improve IO by increasing the amount of disks and channels. I see 2 options: 1. SCSI...

I was considering switching from IDE to SCSI to improve disk performance on a small Windows box running IMAP. Would switching from a Maxtor IDE (DiamondMAX) to a wide SCSI disk @ 10K on Utra160 drastically improve the time IMAP takes to fetch say, 2000 messages? (present IDE filesystem is NTFS +...

Hello all, Which of the two following architectures would you choose for a high-perf NFS server in a cluster env. Most of our data ( 80% ) is small ( 64 kb ) files. Reads and Writes are similar and mostly random in natu Architecture 1: Tyan 2882 2xOpteron 246

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 guys, I am finding that reading the raw data off an SD in my embedded, that the boot sector is not actually at address 0, but differs from card to card (ie. my 64 MB has the boot sector at 4E00, and my 128 MB at C600). Everything else before this is read as 0's. I am not using any of the...

I just received a new case of tapes from Quantum for our SDLT 220 drive and they are all giving me troubles: # mt setdensity 145 # tar cvSbf 1024 /dev/tape /usr2 /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /bin/tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 0 of 524288 bytes /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable:...

Hello group, On older DLT drives there's a know issue with slow restores when the system area of the tape hasn't properly been updated. This could happen because of power loss or SCSI bus reset with the tape still in the drive. The next time such a tape was loaded, the drive couldn't use the...

Hello... I'm a storage newbie, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I've got a new StorageTek Library (L40) with an SDLT 320 drive in it. I am using Veritas NetBackup DataCenter for Windows 2000. My question has to do with wear and tear on the drive heads. My previous library (also...

What does it mean when all three lights in front of an SDLT320 tape drive are blinking, with the tape inserted? -- Will

Anyone know when and where the SATA version of the new Barracuda ES 750GB drive will be available? Thanks, Steve

Can somebody please explain the difference in price? http://store.yahoo.com/ewaggle-com/35mecoexusb219.html http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1786849&affid=10000483

Does anybody have experience with Seagate ATA Baracuda 200 Gbyte Hard Drive - Model: ST3200822A. A local retailer has them for $ 124.99. Rebate of $ 50.00 from Seagate... So total cost: $ 74.99 Specs say 7200 RPM - 8 mb Buffer - 5 Year Warranty.... Sounds like a good deal - But is it too good to...

Hi, I've got a problem using hardware compression with a Seagate STT20000A IDE Travan TR-5 tape drive. I am using the backup program that is native to Windows 2000 Server and can't get more than 10GB on a tape. These tapes should handle up to 20GB of data if compressed. I have selected the 'use...