Hello group !
i bought a used QLA2342. The card seems to work fine, because the
sansurfer-application recognizes it correct, but i can't connect to the
disk i connected to it for testing. Also i can't enter the BIOS of the

I have a problem with RAID 1 (ADAPTEC ULTRA 320), when I install a
Debian Linux don't recognize the Raid, see in many pages of internet
and the problem solve with module a320raid, but when I remove a
aic79xx module from my server i can remove.

someone long in business here?
Until 1996 was with the Teac FD-505 a Combo (Dual)
Floppy Disk Drive available which can handle 3,5" and 5,25"
in one device. There were four model lines existing:

I need a little guidance.
Here is my setup.  I have an IBM server with an integrated SATA
Adaptec Raid 1 controller on the MB.
I recently had a drive die in the array.  Which according to the Array

According to the USB specification I should always be able to unplug an USB stick
from my computers without having  arsik to loose data.
But this is not the case.
Whenever I copy something onto my USB stick and plug the USB stick out

Are the sata cable different?
If yes, how can I understand if by cable il 150Mps or 300Mps ?
Thanks.
           Roberto

I have an issue relating SE disks,,,have a bunch of cables but the all
three arrays working fine with a bunch of DF disks individuall<. When
putting SE disks into array, any of them, than the Scsi controller
doesn't recognize the disks...in manual there is a difference between SE ...

I'm trying to determine why a hard drive will spin down,
then pause, then spin up. I've owned it for more than a few years
and its never done that before.
I ran dx tests on the drive  and it passed ok.

I have a test Windows 2003 server. Im trying to resolve a problem I
have seen before in the disk management console of Win2003 (perhaps xp
has it sometimes too)
The disk is about 250 Gig. The upper screen of the comptuer management

Array consists of two HBA-s, each has four bay slots, +two ventilators
and +two bigger redundant power supplys.
It has 8x4.3GB DF Scsi disks inside. (i have another four disks of 9.1GB
 SE aside).

Trying to do a costa analysis.  I don't want to call a sales guy because you
know what happens if you do.
I am trying to get the latest street numbers for fibre and sata disks for a SAN
infrastructure.  If you can shoot me a  number off the top of your head, I'd

On 2 different servers with 3 different Maxtor OT4 USB drives, they aren't
recongized as formatted, and after the server tries to format them (with a
failure message) they don't work on XP any more.  XP now says the capacity
is 2.048 TB, and now Seatools diagnostics passes the long ...

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerou
users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent acces
of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data.
We need some solution with the help of which we could serve ou

I would like to see a diagram of just how modern drive's read-wright
arms are assembled. I am trying to understand how these get driven. In
particular, I am interested in the magnetic configuration.
I have tried Wikipedia and Google among other sources, but what I have

My PC comes with a Seagate hard-disk that makes the annoying clicking
sound due to Seagate using "Seek To Improve Reliability" (STIR).
To avoid this, I just run eMule at all times so as to keep the
hard-disk busy, but there are times (VoIP, VNC, etc.) when I need to