Does anyone in the group know of any documented limitation regarding the manimum number of paths per device that can be managed by MPxIO. If a SAN storage controller failure occurs it might be that 8 of 16 paths to a device will fail. Is there any scenario where I/O retry count could be used up...

Can anyone explain this? I've burnt some files in at least two sessions on an Imation DVD-R disk. I know some drives won't show more than the first session with certain media/hardware/software combinations, but this is what threw me: Disc is in the drive in which it was burnt; drive is connected to...

Ok boys and girls, this time I've done it. Ok boys and girls, this time I've done it! Its taken precisly 5 1/4 years, but I can now proudly say I have done it I have got my six pack! I spent 5 1/8 years trying out a load of B.S and now I've stumbled on the jack pot. The real deal. Bring on the...

Hi all, I need to write an introductory documentation about SAN technologies. Which software can I use for make a visual diagram (or a public domain picture) to explain about: -fiber cable and different connectors -host bus adapter and GBIC -topologies (switches, hubs, fabrics, naming schema...)...

I know it sounds kludgy, cheap and amateurish, but... I have a legacy app that millions of small, static image files. The app requires a mapped drive letter, so they all have to be on one volume. Problem is, it's getting to be too much to store on a sigle volume. Is there an inexpensive (or open...

While I understand iSCSI protocol performance is a combination of latency, throughput and host resource overhead, which iSCSI configuration would provide better overall performance? A) An iSCSI HBA such as the Adaptec ASA-7211 with a single 1Gbit Ethernet port, or; B) A dual port NIC such as the...

"George Orwell" wrote in message ... I have servers and storage at two sites, with an FC bridge over an ip WAN in between them to create a SAN. Now I would like to run a distributed filesystem on servers at both sites, ...

Hi Folks: I have to go to Japan and work on a server configuration. Both servers have MSA1500 array controllers. OS is Windows 2003 Server. The company has been evaluating one of our base server configurations for months and ended up buying it. Now they want to upgrade this base server to...

Hi, I found an EMC specific mailing list / group on yahoo groups. It deals with EMC software and hardware only. That list is a low volume list, and could certainly use expertise which I have seen on this newsgroup. Please join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emc_list/

Hi everyone, I'm preparing to put together a system geared towards editing large files in Photoshop as well other graphic-based functions. I was hoping for some input on the potential build which includes: Processors: Dual AMD Opteron Model 146, 1MB L2 Cache 64-bit Processors Motherboard:

We're trying to reduce the current window required to read backups from the network and write to the TSM storage pool. One idea presented and asked is if it is possible to put two ssa adapters in the tsm server with lots of disk on the ssa trays, then tell lvm to create the lv such that the PPs are...

I have a SAN with a PowerVault 660F (Dell) and I want manage volumes from Windows 2003 Server but I can not do it. How can I do it? Thanks.

I _had_ two internal disks with lots of data. One drive (F:) had one 60Gb NTFS partition and I wanted to change its cluster size. The other drive (L:) had 11 various linux partitions and one 172Gb FAT32 partition. So I moved everything from F: to L: I changed the cluster size on F: and...

I've noticed on almost all Scalar 100 and Dell 136T tape libraries running with IBM LTO2 drives, that you will occasionally get a flashing A error code. After a lot of research with ADIC on this problem, we were told that in most cases this is caused by a drive recalibration, and it is normal...

Juk with 20k mp3's. Try typing something into the search bar and wait, and wait and wait and wait for the cursor to catch up. This is on a P4 3.6ghz machine. Amarok Has ANYONE been able to make this POS work? It crashes all the time and seems to want to scan my collection of mp3 files every time...

Ok lets try again...This is the first time I am configuring a SAN primarily for consolidating our backups. I have a 2T (8 disks of 250G) SATA-RAID SAN. Now what would be the ideal disk configuration for this server. At this point I am lloking at backing up close to 25G (could double in next 4-6...

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Hello Do you Know the diffrences between these two drives? oh and just to make my post useful :- 1, Make sure all ide drives are connected with boot Hard drive as primary master (set with jumper on back of hard drive (use anti-static strap)) 2, when using linux make sure you have a low-level hard...

Hi, I thought we had everything covered, but we still have issues. I can't find HP's "Checklist" for Windows hosts on a SAN (for backup). Our Windows group thought they had it but noone can find it. We have a mix of 2000 and 2003. Anybody gotta link to a doc/web/pdf? Thanks, Tom

I have an old Caviar 2340 HDD. It has 341.2 MB of storage, 1010 cyclindes, and 55 sectors. I'd like to use it as a secondary slave drive, but Windows XP seems to be having difficulty recognizing the drive. I have even tried Datalife Guard Tools by Western Digital. It will sometimes recognize...