Hi to everybody,
    I have a big problem with a secondary disc after an upgrade I have
rebooted the system and I don't see my secondary hard drive. All I get
is the following error in event manager:

Hi, im thinking there is not much logical difference between a SAN and
NAS in a small business environment.
For example, say i have a file server which connects to a SAN. I have a
number of drives defined in the array and then expose these drives and

I was using my computer (surfing the Web) and then XP told me delayed write failed. Then, I
loaded up HD Tune and SpeedFan separately to check SMART Status. They both showed a
failure. Here's HD tune:
HD Tune: IC35L040AVER07-0 Health

I have a pair of IDE SG HD working fine and I have tried to install an
SG ST3400633AS Sata HD and cannot get my system to recognize this drive
when it is connected. I get the message:
HardWare Initiate failed, please check device!!!

If a hard disk has been damaged by someone turning the PC off at the
mains (it wasn't me, by the way!), and this disk was to be then put
into another machine as a slave drive, is there a chance this could
damage the motherboard of this other PC?

For an IDE hard drive, from where is the temperature measured in the
SMART data reported for the drive?

I got a question about my Iomega USB disks (Silver Series). My system is
a fully updated Windows XP.
When I try to unplug the disk, I get the annoying message that the disk
can't be stopped right now. I learned to use Process Explorer to find

I would like to add an exteranl connection to my computer for an ATA drive.
I would like the IDE connector to fit in the slot in the rear of the
computer used for the various PCI cards.  The only thing my search came up
with is a IDE card that fits in the PCI slot giving one the ...

If I uncheck the XP format option for a QUICK FORMAT then the help text
suggests that XP will test the sectors:
   [Quick Format] "Specifies whether to perform a quick
   format by removing files from the disk without scanning

I am having difficulty installing windows XP pro on my SATA hard drives
for RAID 0.  I have set my BIOS configuration correctly to enable the
RAID.  I have gone into the nVidia RAID configuration and setup the two
drives for RAID 0 and can see the status on those drives as a healthy

New group dedicated to iSCSI SAN Storage:
http://groups.google.com/group/iscsisan

I'm working on copying all my music onto hard drives and want to make
clones of each hard drive for backup purposes and store them somewhere.
Where/how is a good place/method to store them?  Should I keep them in
static free cases in a cool place, a warm place, a dry place?  I ...

Does anybody know if there are any external enclosures that support
SATA2/SATAII/SATA300 drives.  In particular, a seagate (500GB or 750GB)
SATA300 drive.  I have done extensive searching, and am unable to find
any enclosure that definitively says that it will work with SATA II

I recently moved my OS installation from a Seagate Barracuda IV 80GB
drive to a 120Gb Barracuda 7200.7 drive.  This was because the old drive
had developed bad sectors and had been in constant use for three years.
Neither Ghost v5.1d nor Drive Image 2002 would image the old disk, ...

We recently upgraded from a DDS4 tape drive to an IBM VXA2 and are
having problems with the VXA2 only storing 56GB per tape. We are using
X23 tapes which are meant to store 80/160GB.
The server it is installed in runs Windows NT and BackupExec 9.0 Rev