*** Windows 2000 and IDE ATA disk of 256 Go
Hi all,
Does Windows 2000 support IDE ATA disk
capacities of   256 Go ?

I have a problem that probably most of you have seen. We have a an app
which archives thousands of jpeg images daily(<4000). They are stored
in a Dell PV220S. I chose this kind of storage (I am not at all an
storage expert) because high end SAN's were too expensive(a NAS was not

I need to expand a couple of LUNs and am seeking advice regarding how
to proceed.
We are using a Dell/EMC Clarion 300. We have two RAID groups (1 and 2)
that had multiple LUNs on each RAID group with the LUNs assigned to

Hello everyone, new to the forum and hoping you can help me out.
have an external drive that is encrypted with storagecrypt, whic
stops the drive from initializing until a password is put in t
unlock the drive. Being the idiot that i am i have forgotton th

according to the article reliability has been an issue
are these kind of drives more subject to failure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording

Is there anyone who configured an HBA failover on Windows ?
What I need is a simple failover driver, not load-balancing, not a
failover between 2 different HBAs. Am I the only one who needs it?
My experience:

When you look at the properties of a file in Windows XP Explorer, it
lists two sizes: Size, and Size on disk. The Size on disk is larger by
a fraction. What's the explanation of this?
In Corel Paint Shop Pro X, when I look at image information, there's

Your opinions please!
Which is faster:
(6) U320 15K drives in a RAID 10 array, attached to a PCI-X controller.
or

Bought TI 9.0 recently.  Installed on XP Home system.  
Scheduled a test full backup archive to DVD: nothing.
Scheduled a test full backup archive to a HD: nothing.
Removed and re-installed.

Recently I've had 2 drive fails on me, both Maxtors.  One a 200GB PATA
DM Plus 9 drive which now just makes rapid seeking noises followed by a
loudish thud/click and lockups (I've given up trying to get data from
this drive).  Checked online guarantee and its outside :(.

Can somone please point me in the direction of a microsoft document
showing the steps involved in allocating a new LUN to a cluster setup.
If I have an active/passive two node microsoft cluster, and I want to
add a new LUN to it, is there any harm in allocating the new LUN to

I have a Compaq Presario Desktop 6330US with a 2.0 ghz proc. &
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booted into the BIOS. It was there. I set it to "AUTO" an
rebooted into Windows. When I go to my computer, it is not there

I am looking for a device that plugs into the floppy cable that emulates the
1.44meg floppy.
I am not looking to emulate the floppy with emulation software.
Can anyone help me or point me to sufficient resources to design one?

We've got a rumor running around in our shop that EMC, and especially
with their CLARiiON product, that they lock customers out of the system
so that only EMC Support reps can perform what I would consider
standard debugging procedures.

I have a Scalar 100 with 3 IBM Ultrium LTO1 drives installed. I have a
need to add a drive or upgrade completely to LTO3. I want to know if
installing say a Certance CL1101 will work and what steps it takes to
get the library to notice the drives.