Hello, We have installed Veritas Backup exec 9.1 in Windows 2000 adv.server with DELL 136T Drive. When we do the catalog operation we are getting following error. "an inconsistency was encountered on the storage media" We are not able to recover our data.

Hi, I need help with a SAN purchase. We are currently choosing between two different vendors Dell/EMC and IBM. Dell/EMC has offered their CX500 We plan to use it with both FC disk and SATA disk IBM has offered their FastT600(for FCdisk) with FastT100(for SATA disk). Basically this looks like it...

Can anyone give me first-hand advice on typical response-times when retrieving documents from NetApp Snaplock and EMC Centera devices? I'm looking at a scenario where ~20,000 images a day need to be accessed and rapid retrieval times are a user requirement. Typical file size is 100K and bandwidth...

Hi all, guess, I could need a little help ....... I want to test a FC controller board and a FC drive I just bought. The controller is an older HP D6977A. The drive is a Seagate 9,1 GB. Since I have a SUN Enterprise FC storage array (A5000), I thought, I could talk to this device pretty easily.

I'm using V480s with A1000s as storage using Veritas DB edition, solaris 8 running oracle. We're seeing poor IO performance and I'm having trouble pinpointing the problem. IO looks fine when it's mostly writes, but tanks the moment reads increase: Lookin' good:

We are considering a RAID system in the 5 TB range and one of the vendors is Partners Data with a product called SurfRAID Triton: http://www.partnersdata.com/cgi-bin/productinfo?division=storage&id=367 It is a 16 SATA drive RAID 6 unit with Dual U320 controllers. They also have a FC version. Does...

Can someone tell me what this buzzword^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfeature of the Western Digital "RAID Edition" disk drives actually is? -- Thor Lancelot Simon But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could...

Hi I write from Spain, excuses for my english please We need a massive storage solution starting around 2 TB and growing up. So we need an scalable solution. It's not critical information so it's not necessary 24h disponibility and no rapid access. It's bassically for storing pdf, photos, and a...

Hi folks! I just acquired a used StorageWorks 410(?) RAID array for my home network. It's got an SWXRC-05 controller card in it. The card has a six-pin/six-cond RJ-12 jack for its console terminal. Unfortunately I didn't get the console adapter cable with it. Does anyone have the pinouts for...

"The Diskette Experiments: A Hypothetical Longevity of the Floppy Disk" By: Paul Allen Panks ) See website for details. Written summary below: http://members.tripod.com/~panks/diskfun.html In three separate experiments (conducted at regular intervals), I have determined the...

Hi, I am new to the topic of SANs and would like to learn more about the same, especially from the security perspective. Considering that SANs allow for stogare from heterogenous environments, i.e. storage managed in native Windows format of NTFS while clients vary from Windows to UNIX and...

Just had a dream about retrieving data already overwritten. I have no scientific background whatsoever, but wrote down these words in my journal: "In analyzing the structure present on the surface, it is abundantly clear that remnants of data -- however small -- still exist beneath the surface of...

I just installed a Hitachi Travelstar 7k60 as my secondary drive in my Thinkpad laptop, to go with the same model drive as my primary drive. I looked at the device properties for the new drive, and it was showing DMA Mode 2, whereas the primary drive was showing DMA Mode 5. These values are...

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We are implementing an EVault disk-to-disk backup system and I had a question about zoning. Most of our servers have only one HBA, they're not critical systems. We have a NetApp R200 SATA system that will be used only for backups. Can I zone my McData 4500's to the R200 as well as my primary SAN...

I put a new drive (Hitachi 7K60) in my Thinkpad A31's Ultrabay, and noticed that Windows XP has set it to Ultra DMA Mode 2, whereas the same model drive, in the main drive, is set to UDMA Mode 5. Does anyone know how I can force XP to use UDMA Mode 5 on the second drive? Or is there something...

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I've been a SAN and NAS administrator for some time now, but, as some of you will notice from my previous posings, my experience is primarily with EMC products. Now where I work, we have a couple of AIX admin goobers that-- although they have no real complaints about our Symmetrix-- think that...

I hope my question makes sense (I'm not sure...). I mean, let's suppose I've got a disk failure on a Raid 1 array of 2 IDE disks, and for any reason the Raid controler is out. Can I just take the remaining working drive, and read its data on any normal IDE machine ? Or is it absolutely necessary to...

Anyone know whether the Sun StorEdge L25 (or the Quantum M1500) tape library supports some form of user security, like a password or PIN to be entered, before the operator can be allowed to unlock the tape mags? I couldn't find anything in the docs, only a mention about a service key required for...