Hey guys. I've got a real problem on my hands. Basically all my work
for the last 4 years at University, along with countless amounts of
data I've accumulated over the years stored on my hard drive might be
lost. The drive suddenly stopped working properly 2 nights ago, and

I think my external HD was out of work, it displayed as RAW in the
Windows explorer, WHAT IS RAW?
What's worse, I can not access the files stored on the HD. Also some
strange characters displayed, I

I picked up one of those USB enxlosures for 3.5-inch hard drives so
that I could recover the image and music files from my daughter's
computer that had totally crashed so they could be transferred to the
new system.

I hope this is not too mundane a question for this group, but I need to
upgrade an AIT-3 tape drive with 0209 firmware and obtained from the tape
library vendor the firmware file that ends with .GBF.     Going to the Sony
web site, none of the utilities for Windows appear to take ...

I have an Adaptec 2410SA controller with four 160GB drives configured in a
RAID5 array for a total capacity 480GB.
The array contains a lot of very important data, which I can't bear to
loose. A lot of homemade Cubase music,  pictures of my kids growing up, home

I recently read about the heated contest between two Storage vendors
regarding some IOPS tests one did with the other's gear. The latter's claim
is that the IOPS benchmark is biased and irrelevant, and therefore they
don't run it with their own products. Not being neither a HPC ...

Maybe some of the folks here can answer this...
Why doesn't  RAID performance scale?
If a 7200RPM disk can write 20MB/s writes, why can't a stripe of 5
give 100MB/s?

I have a laptop with a 20GB disk.  I want to consolidate partitions
with PM8 but I get error 111 when I boot from the CD.  It asks if I
want to fix the problem and I pick "yes" it doesn't complain but
doesn't do anything, either.  When I reboot I ge the same error.

   I am gopu, new to this group.   I am trying to write driver code for usb
host controller 1.1 .   I hv done enumeration successfully. Now i am trying
to send a REQUEST_SENSE SCSI command. I am able to send the CBW but I am not
able get the reply and CSW. Host controller is not ...

I'm getting stuck trying to figure out how to recover from a
USB mass storage "error".  This is for "bulk only" protocol.
The root problem is that the RTOS we use is returning errors
when they don't really exist and terminating transfers in

I have a SBS 2003 server with SCSI internal and 2 types of USB disks,
"Maxtor OneTouch 4" and "Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini".
The mini drive type has no problem.  The standard size drive type logs about
4000 NTFS file system errors every day.  This system has no other critical

my pc got corrupted.
can not see the  volums in the window.
Anyone know  what happened? My hard disk is brand new....
NEED HELP.........

I have a USB external HD case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817332008
I put 3 drives in. Using normal mode. Not spanning. 2 of the drives
are GPD or GUID or something that Vista made. How can I convert these

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Hi group,
The other day I bought a new Travelstar HD for a Thinkpad.
The drive is labeled as a HTS541616J9A, 160 GB, 5400 Rpm.
I partioned it, into two parts. And now Windows diskmanager reports it