Sunday, 9 July 2006
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| OT: off site meanings (was: who has deskstar gxp 75 dtla-307060 electronics?) Horst Franke 13:43:02 |
| | In news:44A73D30.120A83AE@concentric.net John Turco typed:> 345 wrote:>> More fool you. Have a look at where stuff has been invented since>> the war. >>
Hint: it aint europe with the sole exception of mindless>> socialism and being stupid enough to let unelected EU>> bureaucrats stick their noses into everyone's affairs.>> There's a reason that the unemployment>> rate is MUCH higher in some EU countrys. Hello, Rod: Hi John, why do You refer Rod and not "345" from Australia?> Oh, Horst and Arno are simply in denial. Your attempts at shattering> their delusions are likely doomed to failure, alas. <g>
No, we Europeans stand together 
Horst
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Saturday, 8 July 2006
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| Western Digital "My Book" - Replacing the hard drive Guest 21:31:00 |
| | Hi
I got a 160GB one on sale. MODEL: WDG1U1600N
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=217
I want to take out the hard drive to put in a computer. Then put
another HD into the My Book enclosure.
Is there any easy way to do this? I have it pried half way apart. I
don't want to ruin it.
Thanks
ZD
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| Looking for data recovery software Guest 16:25:05 |
| | I have a corrupted disk, which appears to have been reformatted or has
some files in some partitions deleted.
Are there any software recommendations which get whatever files are
retrievable back from the disk?
/My
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| Virus Scan Cusing Hard Drive Failure Mo 12:34:43 |
| | Was wondering if anyone can provide any insights into the affects of
running frequent virus scans on a hard drive.
Our IT director at work has set all machines to run 4 scans a day.
Specifically, I'm curious as to whether you think that running 3-4
virus scans every day can have an impact on the life of a drive. Is
this common practice at most organizations? Could this be the cause of
a rash of hard drive failure in both laptops and desktops that we have
been experiencing?
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| Big Problem(hard drive) Guest 05:34:39 |
| | My computer was working all good. later i did shut down. on next day my
hard drive was'nt being detected on bios. the hard disk is a seagate 40
gb barracuda ata. i tried to go to a friends house with my hardisk
but,it does'nt detects there too. what should i do? what type of
problem is this?
i have lots of data and i need to recover.
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Friday, 7 July 2006
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| Library, barcodes and TSM Gary.Matthews@Logicacmg.Com 20:19:15 |
| | Hi
Have a problem ,hope someione out there can help.We're currently
backing up to a TS3310(3576) Library - SAN attached with 2 LTO-3
drives. We had a problem with the touch panel screen on the front - it
went dead. IBM engineer reckoned it was a firmware issue, and had us
reset the library config, and update to the latest firmware. This cured
the panel problem but gave us another. The library is now reporting
back to TSM 6 char barcodes not 8 - so we're getting mismatches as the
original tapes has internal headers to match the barcodes e.g.
IA0010L3 but know TSM sees them as IA0010 until it reads the header.
Anyone come across this before?? Is there any config changes I cam make
? ( if this was NetBackup I'd know where lol ) TSM 5.3.3 and W2K3
TIA
Gary
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| CD writing failures with RSJ Pierre Jelenc 18:55:01 |
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I've been rather unsuccessful writing large numbers of files to data CDs.
It does sometimes work, in fact I just saved almost 500 JPEGs to one CD a
few minutes ago, but the next one is busy failing right now, even though
it's a duplicate of the one that did go to completion.
I attach the CD drive as Z: and simply copy *.jpg Z: at the command line.
The copy command echoes each copy without a hitch and returns to the
command line, but soon thereafter the Error Log pops up and starts listing
errors --Illegal Request/Illegal mode for this track, or Hardware Error/
Track 'following' error-- with a strangled beep every few seconds. At that
point, the whole CD system is totally unresponsive. Errors keep on
accumulating and it's not possible to eject the disk. This will go on
until the entire CD is full of errors, at which point there will be a
"disk full" error.
I run the writer at 4X, with a temp directory on a nearly empty partition
with 40 GB free, and the RAM cache is set at 8192 KB, twice the minimum
recommended amount.
Any idea to find out what's wrong?
Pierre
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| Help! CISCO MDS 9216 Install/Maintain Phil Bartlett 18:12:52 |
| | Hi,
Can anyone recommend a company that can install and maintain a CISCO
MDS 9216i? The switch will be located in Liverpool and 24x7x4 coverage
will be required.
Looking forward to your recomendations
Rgds
Phil
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| who has deskstar gxp 75 dtla-307060 electronics? Jrt 10:05:25 |
| | An IBM deskstar DTLA-307060 has just crashed. I pulled it out of the pc
and tested it on another. You can feel the disk spin but the drive is
not accessible nor is it recognized in the bios. The spinning of the
platters seem to indicate that the a component of the electronics board
has failed. Is the fact that it is not accessible or recognized while
the disks spin a confirmation of that?
Anyway, before resorting to a professional recovery service, I would
like to know if someone has a similar drive laying around and of which
the disk has crashed. Would he or she be willing to send me the
electronics thereof? It looks like it is easy to replace the board.
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| Re: you great troll!! News.Rcn.Com 06:08:43 |
| | Well, I would say you got what you deserved. Respect peoples privacy.> It is theirs and not yours. Also asking politely before does help.> Arno what a curious suggestion!!! She was thrilled at being photographed. She
just didn't like that photo. The others were my photos of other people,
not hers.
Didn't that occur to you? If not, why not?
For the others who have posted real suggestions, I had tried PC Inspector
Smart Recovery and it reads each cluster on the card but didn't recognise
anything. Does this mean she accidentally formatted the drive as well as
deleting the photo?
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| Silverback iSNAP 2110 iSCSI HBA Evaluation Program Guest 04:08:35 |
| | Silverback Systems recently launched iSNAP 2110 dual-port GbE PCI-X
iSCSI HBA
supporting Windows 2003, RH4 and SuSE 9/10. Performance testing shows
iSNAP 2110
delivering ~5 times IOPS performance, 50% greater throughput
performance, as well as
lower CPU utilization for iSCSI protocol processing compared to
alternative dual-port iSCSI
HBAS. A link to the data sheet of our new iSCSI HBA follows:
http://www.silverbacksystems.com/PDF/iSNAP_2110_HBA_DataSheet.pdf
We're starting an end-user evaluation program for iSNAP 2110. End
users participating in the
program will have the first opportunity to experience the benefits of
deploying the highest
performance iSCSI acceleration solution available, while providing
valuable feedback to
Silverback. The program is designed to enable us to continuously
improve our products, and
deliver value to our customers.
While the evaluation program provides several benefits to our end
users, some of the key
benefits are access to our support team resources, and a chance to
influence Silverback's
product feature roadmap. Silverback in return requests that you submit
feedback on your
experiences, and suggestions for improvements to our products.
Qualification
This program is intended for Fortune 1000 companies interested in
testing high-performance
IP storage area networking (SAN) in their environments. We are
particularly interested in the
following vertical markets and applications:
?·Messaging
?·On-line transaction processing
?·Decision support, including data mining and warehousing
?·SAN file systems
?·Video production
?·Clustering applications (oil and gas, financial, research, etc)
Silverback does reserve the right to limit the total number of
evaluation sites we take on at
any given time in order to preserve the integrity and quality of the
program. If we are unable
to support your request, we may provide your information to one of our
leading OEMs or
channel partners. The OEM or channel partner may in turn contact you to
follow up on your
request. Silverback is committed to maintaining the privacy and
confidentiality of the
information you provide. We will only share this information if you
specifically opt-in on the
application form.
Evaluation Program Application Form
Please forward the following information to sjang@silverbacksystems.com
by 7/14/06.
A. Contact information
B. iSCSI application(s)
C. Configuration (hardware platform, operating system)
D. May we share your information with our leading OEMs and channel
partners for follow-up, in the event that Silverback cannot support
your request directly? 'Yes' or 'No'
Thanks/regards,
Saqib Jang
Silverback Systems Marketing
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| Compaq Presario hard drive in a dell laptop? 82whiskey@Comcast.Net 02:00:22 |
| | I was told I may be able to put the hard drive from my Compaq Presario
laptop into a Dell laptop. Does this sound right? Is the architecture
similar in laptop hard drives as it is in desktops?
Thanks
Brian
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Thursday, 6 July 2006
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| VxVM import hardware snapshot Stunster 11:12:17 |
| | Hi guys,
Trying to take a hardware snapshot (HDS, EMC, Netapp, whatever) of a
VxVM enabled LUN and mount it back to the same host.
Obviously the snapshot is going to be identical as the primary LUN so
the Veritas private region will have identical diskgroup name and group
id information.
How do we go about importing the snapshot so we can mount it. Veritas
doco seems to suggest we just rename the disk group during the import
with
#> vxdg -C -n newname import olddiskgroup
but we get this error message (which is expected)
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 Disk group testdg: import failed: Disk group
exists and is imported
Any thoughts?
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| Newbie question on HDD choices. Guest 10:31:38 |
| | I have a IBM T42 thinkpad. This is the 2nd time I have purchased an
internal notebook HDD and it hasn't been detected by my *bios*.
I have a toshiba 4026GAX 40GB one that came with the laptop. It works
just fine. I need to upgrade to a larger one. I just tried a *toshiba*
1032GAX 100GB one (same manufacturer, everything.. except a larger
capacity) and that doesnt get detected at all. Any idea what I could be
doing wrong? (I am not using any jumpers or anything.. just taking the
drive and inserting it in the slot - master config. The original one
that works also doesnt have any jumpers. The latter however does have
this metal+plastic attachment that helps to keep in place in the laptop
- I dont think that has got anything to do with the detection right?)
My other option is a USB HDD. I have some concerns though:
- Do the access and transfer speeds of USB HDD really compare well with
the internal HDDs? I have a 1.7Ghz Pentium with 512MB RAM. I plan to
install a WinXP Pro on the USB drive and do some driver development on
it. Will that be significantly slower than with my internal HDD?
- So I can use the bios to choose the drive to boot from (internal
versus USB) and then the MBR to choose which partition on the HDD to
boot from right?
Any caveats about the USB drives in general? If the speeds are good, it
sounds like a good way to use my internal HDD and the USB one in
parallel!
Thanks a lot in advance!
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| Barracuda 7200.10 320 Gig w/ AZIO usb 2.0 enclosure won't format FAT32 Guest 07:21:31 |
| | Windows disk management, partition magic, and seagate disk wizard will
format this drive only as NTFS. I got it to use as an OSX/XP drive. It
formatted as NTFS just fine. The drive is SATA II, and the enclosure
has an eSATA connector too. Thanks for the help!
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| undelete program for SmartMedia cards News.Rcn.Com 06:20:24 |
| | Yesterday some idiot didn't approve of a picture I had taken of her at a
July 4th party. While looking at it, she tried to delete it. What she did
was to delete all the pics from the smart media card. The Fuji camera has
both smart media and compact flash cards so I immediately stopped using the
SmartMedia card and switched to start writing to the compact flash card;
She is devastated by this but I suspect not devastated enough to pay for a
program to restore all the pics I took
I now wonder if there is any way of easily undeleting the twenty or so pics
of other people at her party that she deleted?
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| Could a controller be responsable for drives dying? Deep 02:04:04 |
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I've recently not had much luck with my hard drives, about a month ago I
had a 200GB Maxtor DM9+ die on me without warning, a week later a 200GB
Maxtor DM10 started making similar noises to what the busted DM9+ now
makes (the DM10 still works but its been taken out of use for now).
Now a old 120GB WD drive (which despite its age has had very little use)
I was using as a stand in is now causing the odd Event 51 ("An error was
detected on device..") and Event 57 ("The system failed to flush
data..") also the drive has once "disappeared from the system" according
to the event log, but it evidently reappeared.
Now I've never had so many failures (or signs of failure) in such a
short period of time.
The 200GB drives were bought within a month of each other and have
always run together in the same system so have gone though similar
amount of use.
Recently I've rebuilt the system and the problems started only a couple
of weeks later, so I was wondering if there was any chance the
motherboard controller may have contributed to the problem (i.e. a
hardware fault with it)?
For now I'm just left with 3xSATA drives and the only drives on the ATA
controller are 2xDVD drives. Should I be wary of putting any HDD on
this controller?
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| EMC NS series Anon 01:21:17 |
| | am i mistaken or is this primarily for file sharing? I
don't see how (reading their marketing lit) that i would,
say, run an Oracle database on this that's on a Sun box.
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| Failed Ghost Restore Jimi 00:12:35 |
| | My Ghost 2003 restore failed while looking for "portion 2 of an image".
/ "Norton Ghost needs to open an image span"
This of course leaves the system in a totally unusable state...
How can I create a bootable CD that will allow me to try and recover
from other Ghost images? (Specifcally what needs to go on it?)
This system runs two SATA drives with RAID0. I know from past
experience, I have to run the 'live update' to get Ghost 2003 to speak
to SATA drives. Having done that, can I make "disk recovery" disks on
one system, to use on the failed one? At this point, neither system
even has a floppy drive, but I can certainly add one temporarily.
tia
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Wednesday, 5 July 2006
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| Storage Opportunities SunStorage 20:40:11 |
| | Hello All,
We currently have opening nationwide for Acccount Executives and
Systems Engineers. If anyone is interested please contact me @
610-971-8907 or brian.mccoy@sun.com.
Thanks,
Brian McCoy
Sun Storage Group
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| Re: OT: off site meanings Arno Wagner 20:33:58 |
| | Previously John Turco <jtur@concentric.net> wrote:> Horst Franke wrote:>>
In news:44A8AB0B.210331CF@concentric.net John Turco typed:>> >> Hi John, what about US = "United states"?>> >> This is also a conglomeration of different state laws and so on!>> >> You established this first but now Europe will follow.>> > There are 50 US "states," but they're united by a common language>> > and ruled by a federal government; hardly comparable to the European>> > situation.>> Hi John, not really true (as I see it).>> The US are a "melting pot of nations" with very many different slangs>> (derived from the many various nations integrated and the indian folks).>> But even then Your're not able to ever pronounce pure English >> This again looks to me as a result of the "melting pot" of nations.>> Without this You would have spoken "pure" English or French. Hello, Horst: Europe will probably never become a "melting pot," I can assure you.> Quite the opposite, as a matter of fact, considering its long, sad> history of warfare and strife.> In Europe we have English and French as the most speaken languages. No, significant German-speaking populations exist in more European> nations (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, etc.)> than those of any other language; if going by sheer numbers, then > Russian is on top. Regardless, neither English nor French, is even close. But even if I remember US history right then there were only a few>> percents difference and Your language would have been German I don't see your point. Citizens of German descent do, indeed, account> for the largest ethnic group (about 60 million) in the United States, > today. The vast majority of them have spoken English, for many generations,> though. Besides, nearly all of South America is Spanish-speaking, but nobody>> > ever speaks of establishing a USSA ("United States of South America").>> Please wait for a while. This is forthcoming.>> Spanish and Portuguese are on top. Portuguese in Brazil, true.> This should be enough evidence that countries invariably pursue their>> > own individual (and self-serving), national goals...and to hell with>> > everyone else!>> Wrong! We are sitting in a global world and every one needs every>> others assistence. The time of US leadership has gone.>> Please take care of China, Japan and European evolvements.>> Horst Without "US leadership," Europe (and possibly Japan) would've been> gobbled up by the USSR, in 1945. America's vast industrial/technological> resources and its sole possession of the first atomic bombs, were the> primary obstacles to Joseph Stalin's potential military rampages. The Soviets may be out of power, now, but various threats to world peace> remain. The USA is in the best position to thwart them, in my opinion,> and I'm confident that most informed people would concur with me. You're free to disagree, of course, Horst. 
Cordially, > John Turco <jtur@concentric.net> |
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| What is FA Port Guest 11:36:51 |
| | What is FA Port in Storage Systems
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| Is Terminator Needed To Run At Ultra-360 Rate Yancheng Cheok 11:08:13 |
| | Hello,
Recently, I just having 6 seagate cheetah SCSI hard disk. I try to use
single ultra-360 (there is a ultra-360 printing at the cable. hence, i
assume it is) cable, to connect two SCSI hard disk together.
I realize that their performance (by using SiSoft Sandra) is much
slower than another single SCSI hard disk (exactly the same spec),
which is connected with another cable.
Soon, I realize that for the faster case, the cable has an LVD
terminator.
Does that mean if I want the SCSI hard disk to run at Ultra-360, I need
cable with terminator?
Thank you very much
yccheok
p/s may i know wat is the purpose of having terminator.
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Tuesday, 4 July 2006
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| Is this the right site for DS4000 storage? Rob 22:12:37 |
| | Hi,
I have a question about SANs/DS4300 and wondering if this site is the right
one. Can you let me know if there is any other groups available for
BladeCentre/DS4000?
Thanks-Rob
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| copying files with bad CRCs Yawnmoth 21:42:13 |
| | Say I wanted to copy a *.avi video file (xvid encoded; it's currently
on a hard drive)) but was told (by Windows XP) I couldn't because it
had a bad CRC. Is there a way I could sorta just copy it in spite of
the bad CRC?
The reason I ask is because xvid (and MPEG1/2/4, in general) is a
rather resiliant format. A single corrupt byte may just mean that one
frame is bad. If every 20th frame is a keyframes (ie. i-frames, or
whatever), this means that only 20 - (frame position) % 20 frames are
bad. If there are 100,000+ frames, having less then 20 bad frames is
fairly insignificant. Yet it's significant enough for Windows to deny
you access to the whole file?
So, anyway, I think, in some cases, Windows' seeming refusal to let you
do anything with corrupt files is inappropriate. Is there any
work-around that I'm not aware of?
Thanks!
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