I've found a couple of products on the market (from Marvell and Exar -
not clear whether they're chips or pluggable products), but not much
other information - e.g., whether these, or any others which may be
available, are something close enough to enterprise-grade to use in a

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me the spec of the mounting screws used
on internal drives i.e. 3.5 and 2.5 inch hard drives, CD/DVD Drives, floppy
drives.
I realise that some drives can only accept a specific length but is it a

Do Seagate 500GB 7200.9 and 7200.10 SATA-2 hard disks have exactly the
same number of guaranteed sectors? If so, can I use two of each in a
RAID-0?

I'm looking at several mid-range storage products and am interested in
anecdotal experience that people in this group may have had with these
products.  This storage will provide storage for email (unix mail app),
database (oracle), vmware, and file serving applications.  Our

I am building a fibre channel san. I need to put it in a single room
(no dedicated server room).
I have seen that some fibre channel switch are very noisy because they
have high speed fan to keep them cold.

Looking for a floppy image of a blank 1.44 floppy which includes all header
and gap information.

My system can play DVD's wihtout problems.
However, I'm completely at sea in trying to determine if the drive can
write a DVD blank as a storage device. Drive will easily create a
CD-ROM using the NERO software.

Is there a limit to the number of outstanding FCP transfer ready IUs on
a single exchange?  If the limit is > 1 then is the limited negotiated?
Thanks

I have created a new vdisk in my MSA1000 disk array. I have also
assigned it to the server "xyz" (there are two other vdisks for this
server that are already setup) but I am not sure how to setup it up in
Windows 2003...??? Confused. Some guidance will be appreciated.

I just pcked up a Western Digital My Book 5000GB Essential Edition.
According to the install guide WIndows XP should automatically
recoginize the drive when connected. I've had no such luck. The drive
does not show up when connected. A "New Hardware" found shows up when

I archive images to hard drives (just my preference) - I want to store these
offsite - Does anyone have a recommendation for wrapping / packing for
medium to long term storage - I was thinking of individual bubble wrap &
Food saver type vacuumed sealer. I need to do this to about ...

I completely understand the logic behind defragmentation but I simply
don't understand how it could work given the hard-drives internal block
mapping. If the hard drive assigns logical blocks 1, 2, and 3 to
physical blocks 20, 132, and 88 respectively, then what good is it if

My Win XP Pro PC suffered a BSOD yesterday telling me that part of the
registry was corrupted.  I restored the OS from my Acronis True Image
backup but the bad sector count has increased from 3 to 5.  Not knowing
much about these things, is it time to buy a new HDD?

My 8400 has a Seagate Serial ATA dirve (160 GB). I want to add a
seocnd drive, but made the mistake of getting an Ultra ATA, which the
motherboard doesn't support.
The ribbon cables are attached to a CD R/W and a DVD drive.