Are IBM SCSI drives custom?
I have a 170 with 4 and 8GB drives and want to change to 17 GB or 36 GB drives. Is it true that the IBM drives have IBM’s os/400 micro code and I can only use their drives? I know that the 36GB are working because they are being sold that way (but no [...]
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| February 17, 2010 7:28 PM
AS/400 hardware, Disk drives, IBM 170 series server, SCSI, SCSI Drives, V5R3
I have a 170 with 4 and 8GB drives and want to change to 17 GB or 36 GB drives. Is it true that the IBM drives have IBM’s os/400 micro code and I can only use their drives? I know that the 36GB are working because they are being sold that way (but no [...]
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| February 17, 2010 7:28 PM
AS/400 hardware, Disk drives, IBM 170 series server, SCSI, SCSI Drives, V5R3
Missing Disk Space 1TB HDD
Missing Disk Space Hi, have two 1TB HDD’s not set up in raid config… (1 listed as C other as D) Recentley moved lots of pics to back up in D… in calculating used space i have noted a loss of 121.6G that i cannot account for. I have pc set up with two users… [...]
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| January 30, 2012 2:45 PM
Disk drives, Hard drives
Missing Disk Space Hi, have two 1TB HDD’s not set up in raid config… (1 listed as C other as D) Recentley moved lots of pics to back up in D… in calculating used space i have noted a loss of 121.6G that i cannot account for. I have pc set up with two users… [...]
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| January 30, 2012 2:45 PM
Disk drives, Hard drives
What is SAS?
What does SAS do? What is it’s purpose?
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| April 16, 2009 3:32 PM
Disk drives, SAS
What does SAS do? What is it’s purpose?
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| April 16, 2009 3:32 PM
Disk drives, SAS
DVD Recorder
I removed the DVD recorder drive by unplugging it from the computer tower, now that I have put it back in, it does not recognize any discs I put in there and now the CD ROM does not either, I believe it may have to do with some of the wires that have PS6 and [...]
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| January 26, 2012 3:50 AM
Disk drives, DVD recorders, Optical storage
I removed the DVD recorder drive by unplugging it from the computer tower, now that I have put it back in, it does not recognize any discs I put in there and now the CD ROM does not either, I believe it may have to do with some of the wires that have PS6 and [...]
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| January 26, 2012 3:50 AM
Disk drives, DVD recorders, Optical storage
Bad sectors
How to identify bad sectors in a hard disk and eliminate them
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| January 26, 2012 7:30 AM
Bad sectors, Disk drives, Enterprise Desktop, Hard drives
How to identify bad sectors in a hard disk and eliminate them
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| January 26, 2012 7:30 AM
Bad sectors, Disk drives, Enterprise Desktop, Hard drives
External CD writer
I have recently purchased a second hand memorex CD writer and although it looks in fine order and will play discs I cannot get it to copy/write/or burn discs. It is connected to my PC with a USB – Do I need a driver? or something. If so how do I go about this. Can [...]
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| January 26, 2012 4:25 PM
CD Burner Drivers, CD Burners, Disk drives, Drivers, External Disk Drives, Hardware Drivers
I have recently purchased a second hand memorex CD writer and although it looks in fine order and will play discs I cannot get it to copy/write/or burn discs. It is connected to my PC with a USB – Do I need a driver? or something. If so how do I go about this. Can [...]
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| January 26, 2012 4:25 PM
CD Burner Drivers, CD Burners, Disk drives, Drivers, External Disk Drives, Hardware Drivers
SMIOSTCPGT System Task Consuming 35% of CPU and makeing my disks run very hot any ideas?
I have one LPAR which is a mirrored LPAR running MIMIX and it is having an issue with a System Resident Task of SMIOSTCPGT running a constant 35% of CPU and the disk drives are running at voer 50% busy over a 2 minute sample. I also have other LPARs also running MIMIX and I [...]
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| December 15, 2008 4:39 PM
AS/400, AS/400 performance, Disk drives, LPAR, SMIOSTCPGT, System Resident Tasks
I have one LPAR which is a mirrored LPAR running MIMIX and it is having an issue with a System Resident Task of SMIOSTCPGT running a constant 35% of CPU and the disk drives are running at voer 50% busy over a 2 minute sample. I also have other LPARs also running MIMIX and I [...]
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| December 15, 2008 4:39 PM
AS/400, AS/400 performance, Disk drives, LPAR, SMIOSTCPGT, System Resident Tasks
Disk Sanitizer 5799SD1 – Physically Removing Drive
I have sanitized the disk drives and ready to physicall remove them. I have tried device concurrent maintence to remove the disk drives, when I pull the disk drive out, it sends a critical hardware message to qsysopr message queue. IBM says that I need to power down the system then remove them. Has anyone [...]
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| January 27, 2012 3:46 PM
AS/400 storage, Disk drives, Disk Sanitizer, Disk Sanitizer 5799SD1, QSYSOPR
I have sanitized the disk drives and ready to physicall remove them. I have tried device concurrent maintence to remove the disk drives, when I pull the disk drive out, it sends a critical hardware message to qsysopr message queue. IBM says that I need to power down the system then remove them. Has anyone [...]
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| January 27, 2012 3:46 PM
AS/400 storage, Disk drives, Disk Sanitizer, Disk Sanitizer 5799SD1, QSYSOPR
Adding Disk Units to model 9406-800
Hello Have a client at V5R3. Before I can upgrade them, I had to order 2 additional disk units. I will need to install them. Not being a hardware guy, I am not really sure what is involved. I was told that I just had to pull off the front panel, and then, pop the [...]
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| January 26, 2012 1:42 PM
AS/400 storage, Disk drives, V5R3
Hello Have a client at V5R3. Before I can upgrade them, I had to order 2 additional disk units. I will need to install them. Not being a hardware guy, I am not really sure what is involved. I was told that I just had to pull off the front panel, and then, pop the [...]
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| January 26, 2012 1:42 PM
AS/400 storage, Disk drives, V5R3
HUGE hard disks problem, PLEASE! help.
HUGE hard disks problem, PLEASE! help. (Apologies for the lengthy message. My technical expertise is nil and I don’t know what information is needed, so I prefer to include every possible detail. Neither is my English very good, but I hope to be able to explain the situation clearly) My computer is an old modified [...]
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| November 2, 2011 4:17 PM
Backup & recovery, Data migration, Disk drives, Hard drive repair, Migrations and upgrades
HUGE hard disks problem, PLEASE! help. (Apologies for the lengthy message. My technical expertise is nil and I don’t know what information is needed, so I prefer to include every possible detail. Neither is my English very good, but I hope to be able to explain the situation clearly) My computer is an old modified [...]
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| November 2, 2011 4:17 PM
Backup & recovery, Data migration, Disk drives, Hard drive repair, Migrations and upgrades
Will defragmenting hard disks improve SQL Server performance?
Does it help to defragment the local hard disks on SQL Server to improve performance? I just started a new position and the drives on the servers are very fragmented. Could defragmenting them help boost some performance? Thanks.
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| January 30, 2012 3:20 AM
Defragment, Disk drives, SQL Server performance tuning
Does it help to defragment the local hard disks on SQL Server to improve performance? I just started a new position and the drives on the servers are very fragmented. Could defragmenting them help boost some performance? Thanks.
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| January 30, 2012 3:20 AM
Defragment, Disk drives, SQL Server performance tuning
disk degraded
My as400 is showing a status of ‘degraded’ when doing a ‘wrkdsksts’. I would assume that one of the disk has failed but all say operational when using display hardware resources. Help!
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| January 26, 2012 4:22 PM
AS/400, Disk drives, WRKDSKSTS
My as400 is showing a status of ‘degraded’ when doing a ‘wrkdsksts’. I would assume that one of the disk has failed but all say operational when using display hardware resources. Help!
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| January 26, 2012 4:22 PM
AS/400, Disk drives, WRKDSKSTS
Data erasing solutions?
Hello everyone, I am currently working on a worldwide project and I need address one specific issue: Which is the better solution in terms of: 1. Administration (time dedicated to daily production). 2. Product effectiveness and by this I mean the products capacity to provide a 100% or close to in satisfying its goal (completely [...]
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| February 24, 2009 4:25 AM
Business/IT alignment, Disk drives, Hardware, Project management, Security, Storage products and equipment
Hello everyone, I am currently working on a worldwide project and I need address one specific issue: Which is the better solution in terms of: 1. Administration (time dedicated to daily production). 2. Product effectiveness and by this I mean the products capacity to provide a 100% or close to in satisfying its goal (completely [...]
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| February 24, 2009 4:25 AM
Business/IT alignment, Disk drives, Hardware, Project management, Security, Storage products and equipment
Continual CHKDSK errors
I’ve recently scheduled a daily procedure (CMD) to run on a test group of PCs (including one server with mirrored drives) that runs CHKDSK early every morning. While running under Windows, if it finds errors, it will shutdown/restart and CHKDSK /F will be run to repair the errors. Out of a group of 10 PCs, [...]
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| January 26, 2012 6:05 AM
CHKDSK, Disk drives, RAID, Storage
I’ve recently scheduled a daily procedure (CMD) to run on a test group of PCs (including one server with mirrored drives) that runs CHKDSK early every morning. While running under Windows, if it finds errors, it will shutdown/restart and CHKDSK /F will be run to repair the errors. Out of a group of 10 PCs, [...]
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| January 26, 2012 6:05 AM
CHKDSK, Disk drives, RAID, Storage
RAID – Upgrading disks to larger ones
Hi all, I wrote not long ago about the best way to upgrade disks when using RAID1. I’ve now managed to copy all contents from my 2 original volumes, into 2 identical (but larger) volumes on the new larger disk. I used Ghost for this, by making a backup of first the system volume, then [...]
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| January 30, 2012 4:38 PM
Disk drives, RAID
Hi all, I wrote not long ago about the best way to upgrade disks when using RAID1. I’ve now managed to copy all contents from my 2 original volumes, into 2 identical (but larger) volumes on the new larger disk. I used Ghost for this, by making a backup of first the system volume, then [...]
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| January 30, 2012 4:38 PM
Disk drives, RAID
DVD Burner Problem
Hello, I have an issue i never ran into before. I have a brand new CD/DVD burner that will burn CDs but not DVDs. It is a LG GSA-4160B (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B in windows). Now i already updated the firmware to the latest version (406a) to no prevail. And the strangest thing is if you [...]
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| January 26, 2012 8:55 PM
Backup & recovery, Disk drives, Hardware
Hello, I have an issue i never ran into before. I have a brand new CD/DVD burner that will burn CDs but not DVDs. It is a LG GSA-4160B (HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B in windows). Now i already updated the firmware to the latest version (406a) to no prevail. And the strangest thing is if you [...]
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| January 26, 2012 8:55 PM
Backup & recovery, Disk drives, Hardware
End Program – explorer.exe
From the last few days I am facing this problem. When I shut down my Win 2000 Server(SP4) at the end of the day the end program-exlorer.exe dialog box comes up twice and it shuts down only after I click on the 2 end now buttons. Both end program dialog boxes are same and comes [...]
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| April 19, 2006 7:24 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Cabling, Computer Associates, Corporate portal applications, Data analysis, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktop management applications, Desktops, DHCP, Disk drives, DNS, Exchange, Hardware, Hubs, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Network applications management, Network management software, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, Oracle, OS, Performance management, Routers, Security, Servers, Software, Spam, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support, Web services, Web site design & management, WINS, Wireless
From the last few days I am facing this problem. When I shut down my Win 2000 Server(SP4) at the end of the day the end program-exlorer.exe dialog box comes up twice and it shuts down only after I click on the 2 end now buttons. Both end program dialog boxes are same and comes [...]
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| April 19, 2006 7:24 AM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Cabling, Computer Associates, Corporate portal applications, Data analysis, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktop management applications, Desktops, DHCP, Disk drives, DNS, Exchange, Hardware, Hubs, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Network applications management, Network management software, Network protocols, Networking, Networking services, Oracle, OS, Performance management, Routers, Security, Servers, Software, Spam, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support, Web services, Web site design & management, WINS, Wireless
Report from check disk on active NTFS partition
If I run check disk on the next system boot, I’d like to know if it found and fixed any problems. Does it generate a report, and where would I find it? Someone suggested the event log, but I may not know what I am looking for: a log, a report, a breif line item [...]
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| January 30, 2012 9:23 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Disk drives, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Tech support
If I run check disk on the next system boot, I’d like to know if it found and fixed any problems. Does it generate a report, and where would I find it? Someone suggested the event log, but I may not know what I am looking for: a log, a report, a breif line item [...]
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| January 30, 2012 9:23 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Disk drives, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Tech support
storage
Hi , I am mahesh.j a fresher , i would like build my carrier on storage .where i am familer to storage hardware now i would like expertise on it.My question is that how to be expertise on it, so i would request u all help me on it by ur guidlines. what are platform [...]
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| January 30, 2012 9:05 AM
Arrays, Backup & recovery, Commvault, Computer Associates, Disk drives, EMC, Fibre channel, HP, IBM, NAS, Optical, RAID, SAN, SCSI, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Tape drives/Libraries, Veritas
Hi , I am mahesh.j a fresher , i would like build my carrier on storage .where i am familer to storage hardware now i would like expertise on it.My question is that how to be expertise on it, so i would request u all help me on it by ur guidlines. what are platform [...]
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| January 30, 2012 9:05 AM
Arrays, Backup & recovery, Commvault, Computer Associates, Disk drives, EMC, Fibre channel, HP, IBM, NAS, Optical, RAID, SAN, SCSI, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Tape drives/Libraries, Veritas
IBM FC #4319 disk drives
I have 25 4319 10k 35gb disk drives in a closet my management would like to have added to the existing iSeries. My question is if I replace FC#4318 10k 17gb drives with FX#4319 10k 35gb drives will performance degrade? How or where can I find the seek times, MTBF numbers etc to compare performance?
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| January 19, 2006 2:03 PM
AS/400, Disk drives
I have 25 4319 10k 35gb disk drives in a closet my management would like to have added to the existing iSeries. My question is if I replace FC#4318 10k 17gb drives with FX#4319 10k 35gb drives will performance degrade? How or where can I find the seek times, MTBF numbers etc to compare performance?
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| January 19, 2006 2:03 PM
AS/400, Disk drives
