I have had several DLTtape products lying around (unused/unopened) for a few years. They're now on Ebay if anyone is interested in taking them off my hands. See them all he http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=cscooper2000&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1 Thanks, CC

Has anyone had any experience with the iSCSI server/host in NetWare 6.5? We just migrated one of our older servers to a shiny new NW6.5 box. The iSCSI support was not a reason for the migration, but there it is, and I'm looking at a lite-SAN application.

Any opinions out there of the suitability of Oracle (or any other DBMS) for storing multiple Terabytes of images/documents in an EDM scenario? Wouldn't storage on NAS/CAS be more sensible and possibly cheaper? We need rapid access for large volumes of archived documents, so opticals may not be...

Hi all.. I'm quite new to the SAN's world... Few months ago, we bought a FastT200 SAN from IBM. We connected it to an IBM Xseries 345 Server. (Windows 2000 SVR SP4) We have 2 RAID controllers ont the FastT200 and they're both connected to a 2Gb FC switch. (So is the XSeries server)

Hi, when reading data from Legato 7.1.2 on Linux SuSE 8.2, using a STK L20 + LTO Ultrium 1 I get this error: "Cannot decode block. Verify the device configuration. Tape positioning by record is disabled." Device is configured for blocksize=512kb (mt -f /dev/nst0 status reports that), device on...

Hi I need to connect a Dell poweredge SDLT LVD drive (pretty sure its just branded) to my home network - problem is, none of the home PC's have a PCI-X bus, so the Adaptec 39160 I borrowed isn't going to work .... e.g. will the Adaptec 29160 (Ultra 160) work? Is there anything cheaper than this?

De: "Emmanuel Bouchard" Objet: FastT200 write performance problem... Date: 30 août, 2004 20:31 Hi all.. I'm quite new to the SAN's world... Few months ago, we bought a FastT200 SAN from IBM. We connected it to an IBM Xseries 345 Server. (Windows 2000 SVR SP4)

well I expect that there are a lot of very experienced and knowledgeable people out there in this forum. I'm wondering whether it makes sense to go for Storage Virtualization in future. I see a new technology that adds more complexity in my already complex SAN. There are concepts out like inband...

Hi David, I just joined this thread about fireproof safes, so I may be a bit behind... But there are several products on the market for your specific interest. If you want to have a fireproof tape backup I recommend the Schwab DataFORTRESS, a complete fireproof safe that can hook directly up to...

The question is on the role of host cache during disaster with SAN. Let's assume a simple setup with a host connecting to an external RAID box. An application write data, host put them on it's page cache and tells the application that it's done, and so application carries on. While the dirty data...

All, I am currently having a discussion with a large storage vendor that is attempting to justify the price of it's SATA drives offered with enterprise level enclosures (eg backing onto fibre). One large part of their argument is that the SATA drives (250GB) that they use are "special", built to...

Hi all, I'm currently monitoring this ng because I need to learn some things about san. The differences between SAN and NAS are clear to me so that does not need any additional explanation. My interests in SAN were raised when I received some hardware from a friend and started to read about it....

Hello All, As mentioned before in this ng, I'm new and a little busy composing a small san environment. Currently I'm looking on eBay to find some hardware but can't find (or pay) an all-in-one solution that fits my needs. I would like to use a disk array with onboard raid controller (raid 50)...

hi all i am comparing a emc ns 700 (4 data movers) with a netapp f 980. the emc box scales to 30 tb while the netapp one scales to 32 tb. seemingly both seem equivalent but emc is offering the advantage of mixing serial ata disks with fibre channel disks in the same chassis. anyone used any of...

Hi, I have joined a site with a currently very complex backup setup with 3 HP SAN's (2 HSG's 1 EVA). They are currently using business copy to snapshot drives onto the main backup server to backup using backupexec across fibre. This is fine but along side this some 6 oracle servers are also using...

Hi all, I'm trying to decide between a number of new external drive enclosures for portable backup requirements and I'm looking for any info on experiences with SATA versus plain old ATA133 when using a firewire interface. Some people have told me that one or two 7200RPM ATA drives in a housing...

Does anyone have any experience converting the old DOS Macrofiche COLD reports into another format? I have a client who only has a handful of old reports they want converted to RTF format. They want to get rid of all their DOS applications, and Macrofiche is one of them. But, they need to...

Can anyone think of a reason why all the virtual disks on a RAID-5 reverted from NTFS to RAW? I'm stumped. I've got Win2K Pro running on Dell hardware.

Pardon my question, I am a beginner in NDMP land. We are developing a snapshot file system that can track the files which changed since the previous snapshot. Pathnames of those changed files can be listed with a special command. Now I have two questions: Can I give one of the commercial NDMP...

Hi there, Ages and ages ago I saw a hardware RAID product that fitted in a 5.25" drive bay and used 2.5" hard disks. Does anyone here with a better memory than me know who makes such a product ? I basically want to make use of fast and quiet notebook drives and stripe them for performance on my...