Using IBM Storage Manager and viewing our defined mappings i see
almost all of the logical drives are of the type standard.  One of
them is called "Access" and has a type of Access.
This was a mapping that was setup previous to my involvment with this

For unknown reason, my partition magic 8 installation didn't go to
completion (script error). Yet, programs group was still added to
Start->All Programs menu. I wanted to uninstall PM8 but I couldn't
find uninstall program option under Start->All Programs->Partition

How much overhead does raid6 add?  If I had 300GB of data, how much
overhead would be added by the raid6 implementation?  Does this also
depend on how much data I have?  Will the overhead change if I had
more than 300GB, say 600GB?

For unknown reason, my partition magic 8 installation didn't go to
completion (script error). Yet, programs group was still added to
Start->All Programs menu. I wanted to uninstall PM8 but I couldn't
find uninstall program option under Start->All Programs->Partition

Hey all, I've recently been trying to fix my mothers computer so
naturally I placed her harddrive into my computer to see if it worked.
I bought a new drive and put it in my now working computer also, alas
neither of them worked. The old HD I could have reformatted but I'm

I have a NDAS device called a Ximeta 250GB Network Storage.  It has a
8-port ethernet switch that allows multiple connections to the device.
Recently, we had gotten delayed write errors, so after some research
we decided to replace the drive.  From WD to Seagate, easy enough...

Hi.  So I've heard E-SATA is hot pluggable but its not working on my
setup.  I have a fairly popular ASUS motherboard (ASUS P5-B Deluxe).
I have an External SATA HDD connected right now through the E-SATA
connector on the back of the mobo with a 500GB Western Digital SATA.

I have an external 2.5' usb drive
the disk in not formated but is OK and the drive box/cable/power supply
is also OK
however, the new drive will not show in XP , even in control panel /

 Supposing i partition a tape library into two logical libraries, can
i assign both the logical libraries to the same server?
If its possible, how does an application differentiate between the
two logical library instances. i.e

I'm looking for information on fast file system access and how to
approach it and achieve it.
Many super computer centers use GPFS as do some commercial, though you
hear of it mostly in the edu space.

I'm looking for some recommendations of external hard drives. I need
to occasionally carry around a lot of data (about 120gb and slowly
growing). I want a good quality external hard drive which has a fast
data transfer and about 180gb of storage space, but as small and light

I have an old PII 400 with an SE400BX mobo.
3 hard drives, all SCSI.
I need to add a drive. SCSI is too expensive, not to mention, not sure how
easy it would be to rejigger the cable to handle a 4th drive.

I have a xseries 255 connected to a EXP 300 via a ServeRAID Controller
and I need more storage space. I have a second EXP 300 that I was
looking at connecting to the xseries 255 via another ServeRAID
controller anybody have an idea if it is possible? And how can i

I am doing a lot of serious digital photography and I am
shooting in RAW - these RAW files are the equivalent of
negatives and I need to be able to store them.  I can't
store them on my regular C drive because they will quickly

I have spend some time on the phone with EMC this morning without
really getting anywhere with my question.
I am costumer to a facilitation service where a facilitation provider
looks after a lot of my servers. the servers are all connected to a