Network Design Development
How do I create a network design for a large business? The following is the scenario and the requirements, I need so help please. An Ice Cream Factory with 5 stores, citywide and has connectivity to the corporate office in Austin. Each store is responsible for maintaining its inventory locally, but must communicate with the [...]
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| December 5, 2004 9:06 AM
Application software, Auditing, Career development, CIO, Cooling, Data center design, Data center operations, DataCenter, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, E-business, Electrical, Handhelds/Phones, Implementation, Information risk management, IT architecture, IT Governance, Networking, Networking Products, Operating system platforms, Partner facing, Peripherals, Physical security, Planning, Project management, Security, Security management, Security products, Servers, Services, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure, Staffing, Storage, System utilities, Vendors
How do I create a network design for a large business? The following is the scenario and the requirements, I need so help please. An Ice Cream Factory with 5 stores, citywide and has connectivity to the corporate office in Austin. Each store is responsible for maintaining its inventory locally, but must communicate with the [...]
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| December 5, 2004 9:06 AM
Application software, Auditing, Career development, CIO, Cooling, Data center design, Data center operations, DataCenter, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, E-business, Electrical, Handhelds/Phones, Implementation, Information risk management, IT architecture, IT Governance, Networking, Networking Products, Operating system platforms, Partner facing, Peripherals, Physical security, Planning, Project management, Security, Security management, Security products, Servers, Services, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure, Staffing, Storage, System utilities, Vendors
Small Office setup
Dear All, I’m about the plan the reorganisation of a NGO office. Here is the existing conf: - 1 main office with 20 users - workstation P3, 64MB RAM, 20go HDD, Win98, Office 2K - standalone UPS - ADSL connection to Internet @1024/128 – Alcatel speedtouch 150 - 1 server – SBS 2000 + exchange [...]
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| December 25, 2004 7:12 AM
DataCenter, Networking, Security, Storage
Dear All, I’m about the plan the reorganisation of a NGO office. Here is the existing conf: - 1 main office with 20 users - workstation P3, 64MB RAM, 20go HDD, Win98, Office 2K - standalone UPS - ADSL connection to Internet @1024/128 – Alcatel speedtouch 150 - 1 server – SBS 2000 + exchange [...]
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| December 25, 2004 7:12 AM
DataCenter, Networking, Security, Storage
who integrated Domino Admin Server Monitoring in CA Unicenter NSM Console?
We only want one monitor in our IT production environment: CA Unicenter NSM Console. Therfore we want that all irregular events of Domino Administrator Server Monitoring are sent to CA Unicenter NSM Console. Has anybody done this or can give hints or tips? Thanks a lot.
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| December 3, 2004 10:55 AM
Computer Associates, Data center design, Data center operations, DataCenter, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Hardware, IBM, Implementation, Information risk management, IT architecture, Networking services, Security management, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support
We only want one monitor in our IT production environment: CA Unicenter NSM Console. Therfore we want that all irregular events of Domino Administrator Server Monitoring are sent to CA Unicenter NSM Console. Has anybody done this or can give hints or tips? Thanks a lot.
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| December 3, 2004 10:55 AM
Computer Associates, Data center design, Data center operations, DataCenter, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Hardware, IBM, Implementation, Information risk management, IT architecture, Networking services, Security management, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support
HP Open View Storage Data Protector
We are instituting this new back up device. It was just thrown into my lap and I don’t have any idea how to use it. I am struggling through, however, I keep getting a critical error message as follows:Health Check Failed. It then states that I need to check the log files from the CLI. [...]
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| February 3, 2009 3:51 PM
Disaster Recovery, HP OpenView, Storage
We are instituting this new back up device. It was just thrown into my lap and I don’t have any idea how to use it. I am struggling through, however, I keep getting a critical error message as follows:Health Check Failed. It then states that I need to check the log files from the CLI. [...]
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| February 3, 2009 3:51 PM
Disaster Recovery, HP OpenView, Storage
Best practices for backups
I have been doing some research around solving the ever present issue of data backup for companies that have massive amounts of data and zero backup windows. I have my own ideas on this, but I was wondering the route others are taking. Any Ideas?, or any real world examples?. Is tape elimination on your [...]
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| January 16, 2009 5:44 PM
Backup, Real Time Backup
I have been doing some research around solving the ever present issue of data backup for companies that have massive amounts of data and zero backup windows. I have my own ideas on this, but I was wondering the route others are taking. Any Ideas?, or any real world examples?. Is tape elimination on your [...]
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| January 16, 2009 5:44 PM
Backup, Real Time Backup
heterogenous SAN software?
is there a vendor that does heterogenous SAN software? linux (any flavor) and windows client, it needs to run fast and robust, as we are streaming video over this SAN.
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| July 24, 2008 3:23 PM
SAN, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment
is there a vendor that does heterogenous SAN software? linux (any flavor) and windows client, it needs to run fast and robust, as we are streaming video over this SAN.
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| July 24, 2008 3:23 PM
SAN, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment
HBA not showing WWN
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: WE have a data center server, 2003 servers and two HBAs in each node. Both the cards are Emulex Fibre Channel Cards. One card is already in working condition. We have recently added the second HBA card. The driver was updated, and I am able to detect two HBAs from the [...]
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| August 6, 2009 10:27 AM
3PAR, Adapters/Interfaces, ADIC, AMCC, AppIQ, Arrays, Backup & recovery, Blue Arc, Brocade, Cisco, CNT, Commvault, Commvault Systems, Computer Associates, CreekPath, Data Core Software, Dell, Disk drives, EMC, Emulex, Exabyte, FalconStor, Fibre channel, Finisar, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Imation, InterSAN, LSI Logic, McData, NAS, Network Appliance, NTP Software, Optical, Overland Data, Power Quest, Procom Technologies, Quantum, RAID, SAN, SCSI, SEA, Sony, Spectra Logic, Storability, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, StorageTek, Storcase technology, Sun Microsystems, Syncsort, Tape drives/Libraries, Tivoli, TrueSAN, Veritas, Xiotech
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: WE have a data center server, 2003 servers and two HBAs in each node. Both the cards are Emulex Fibre Channel Cards. One card is already in working condition. We have recently added the second HBA card. The driver was updated, and I am able to detect two HBAs from the [...]
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| August 6, 2009 10:27 AM
3PAR, Adapters/Interfaces, ADIC, AMCC, AppIQ, Arrays, Backup & recovery, Blue Arc, Brocade, Cisco, CNT, Commvault, Commvault Systems, Computer Associates, CreekPath, Data Core Software, Dell, Disk drives, EMC, Emulex, Exabyte, FalconStor, Fibre channel, Finisar, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Imation, InterSAN, LSI Logic, McData, NAS, Network Appliance, NTP Software, Optical, Overland Data, Power Quest, Procom Technologies, Quantum, RAID, SAN, SCSI, SEA, Sony, Spectra Logic, Storability, Storage, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, StorageTek, Storcase technology, Sun Microsystems, Syncsort, Tape drives/Libraries, Tivoli, TrueSAN, Veritas, Xiotech
Monitor Internet Bandwidth
Good day, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server in our organisation with Exchange,Dns and Isa server configured. 1. I want to monitor the internet usage by the users. 2. I want to take a report on monthly or daily basis how much mb/gb utilised By Each User. Thanks for u’r reply in advance.
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| December 29, 2004 1:55 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Auditing, Availability, Backup, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, BroadVision, Business Objects, Call Centers, Clarify Inc., CLB, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Component Load Balancing, Content filtering, Corporate portal applications, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Datacenter Server, DB2 administration, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Distributed File System, DNS, E-business, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, FAT and NTFS, Fault isolation, Firewalls, General Directories, Graphical User Interfaces, Handheld, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Integration/Connectivity, Intel servers, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Licensing, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Maintenance, Major Vendors, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Netscape Mail, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network requirements, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Office Applications, Operating system platforms, Operating systems, Outlook, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance management, Performance/Tuning, Planning, Policies, POP3, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Reporting, ROI & cost justification, Routers, S/MIME, Security, Security management, Security products, Sendmail, Server consolidation, Server management, Server-based/Thin-client computing, Servers, Services, Software, Software distribution, Software Quality Assurance, Spam, Storage, System monitoring, System utilities, Tech support, Technical support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Virus protection, Web services, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003
Good day, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server in our organisation with Exchange,Dns and Isa server configured. 1. I want to monitor the internet usage by the users. 2. I want to take a report on monthly or daily basis how much mb/gb utilised By Each User. Thanks for u’r reply in advance.
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| December 29, 2004 1:55 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Auditing, Availability, Backup, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, BroadVision, Business Objects, Call Centers, Clarify Inc., CLB, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Component Load Balancing, Content filtering, Corporate portal applications, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data center operations, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Datacenter Server, DB2 administration, Desktop security, Desktops, DHCP, Distributed File System, DNS, E-business, E-mail applications, ERP, Exchange, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, FAT and NTFS, Fault isolation, Firewalls, General Directories, Graphical User Interfaces, Handheld, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Integration/Connectivity, Intel servers, IT architecture, Knowledge management applications, Licensing, Lotus Domino, Mail protocols, Maintenance, Major Vendors, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Netscape Mail, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network requirements, Network testing, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Office Applications, Operating system platforms, Operating systems, Outlook, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance management, Performance/Tuning, Planning, Policies, POP3, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Reporting, ROI & cost justification, Routers, S/MIME, Security, Security management, Security products, Sendmail, Server consolidation, Server management, Server-based/Thin-client computing, Servers, Services, Software, Software distribution, Software Quality Assurance, Spam, Storage, System monitoring, System utilities, Tech support, Technical support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Virus protection, Web services, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003
Restore user’s to WRKDIRE
Hello My name is Aderito Lopes and I’am from Portugal. Whem I install a new I5 and pass the information of my customer I have a problem. I can’t restore the user’s in the directory (WRKDIRE). I do, RSTUSRPRF + RSTCFG + DATA the customer + QDOC + FOLDER’S CA + RSTAUT. When I do [...]
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| November 26, 2004 4:07 PM
Backup & recovery
Hello My name is Aderito Lopes and I’am from Portugal. Whem I install a new I5 and pass the information of my customer I have a problem. I can’t restore the user’s in the directory (WRKDIRE). I do, RSTUSRPRF + RSTCFG + DATA the customer + QDOC + FOLDER’S CA + RSTAUT. When I do [...]
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| November 26, 2004 4:07 PM
Backup & recovery
Moving DNS outside
We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000 [...]
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| November 24, 2004 8:28 AM
Active Directory, Adapters/Interfaces, Administration, AMD PC hardware, Arrays, Backup, Backup & recovery, BlackBerry, Computer Associates, Desktops, DHCP, Dial-up networking, Disk drives, DNS, E-mail applications, Exchange 2003, FAT and NTFS, Firewalls, Forensics, Gigabit ethernet, Handheld, Help Desk, Incident response, Installation, Intel PC hardware, Intel servers, Intrusion management, Layer 3-7 Switches, Mac hardware, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Network security, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Outlook, Overland Data, Palm OS, Performance/Tuning, RAID, Remote management, Servers, Storage servers, Switches, Tape drives/Libraries, Tech support, VPN, WatchGuard, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Mobile, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Wireless, Yahoo
We are moving DNS services outside and I would like to learn more about how to set this up. We currently have AD Integrated DNS server, Primary DNS server, and Secondary DNS servers set up in our AD domain. We have 2 Domain Controllers, one on Windows 2003 w/Exchange 2003 w/GC, and one Windows 2000 [...]
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| November 24, 2004 8:28 AM
Active Directory, Adapters/Interfaces, Administration, AMD PC hardware, Arrays, Backup, Backup & recovery, BlackBerry, Computer Associates, Desktops, DHCP, Dial-up networking, Disk drives, DNS, E-mail applications, Exchange 2003, FAT and NTFS, Firewalls, Forensics, Gigabit ethernet, Handheld, Help Desk, Incident response, Installation, Intel PC hardware, Intel servers, Intrusion management, Layer 3-7 Switches, Mac hardware, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Network security, Networking, Networking Equipment, Networking services, Outlook, Overland Data, Palm OS, Performance/Tuning, RAID, Remote management, Servers, Storage servers, Switches, Tape drives/Libraries, Tech support, VPN, WatchGuard, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Mobile, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Wireless, Yahoo
Dell PowerEdge 2800 – Explanation of RAID Hard Drive Configurations & the reasons for a choice
I have been researching the purchase of a new server for our company. We are a non-computer manufacturing company. Currently we have a Mirror disk configuration. I want to utilize RAID5, stripping with parity, and Hot swap capability on the new server. The server of interest to me is the Dell PowerEdge 2800. Where I [...]
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| November 24, 2004 2:46 PM
Intel servers, RAID, Servers, Storage
I have been researching the purchase of a new server for our company. We are a non-computer manufacturing company. Currently we have a Mirror disk configuration. I want to utilize RAID5, stripping with parity, and Hot swap capability on the new server. The server of interest to me is the Dell PowerEdge 2800. Where I [...]
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| November 24, 2004 2:46 PM
Intel servers, RAID, Servers, Storage
Lost QSECOFR Password and DST QSECOFR is disabled.
I have a 170 at V5R1 and I have lost the QSECOFR password, and the DST QSECOFR has been disabled. I do have access to other DST profiles and can access SST, which allow me to modify the MI code if I wish. Anybody have any suggestions as to how I can regain access to [...]
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| March 12, 2010 5:10 PM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Policies, Risk management, Security Program Management
I have a 170 at V5R1 and I have lost the QSECOFR password, and the DST QSECOFR has been disabled. I do have access to other DST profiles and can access SST, which allow me to modify the MI code if I wish. Anybody have any suggestions as to how I can regain access to [...]
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| March 12, 2010 5:10 PM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Policies, Risk management, Security Program Management
USB Memory
1) Is there a way to automaticaly start a program from USB key when you insert key to PC? 2) Is there a way to get Serial Number from USB memory key?
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| November 24, 2004 4:19 PM
Storage
1) Is there a way to automaticaly start a program from USB key when you insert key to PC? 2) Is there a way to get Serial Number from USB memory key?
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| November 24, 2004 4:19 PM
Storage
storage SAN planning
Storage area network is new to our organization. We plan to implement one next year to consolidate storage across several physical locations/divisions. Do you have any practical advice on implementation?
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| February 3, 2009 3:35 PM
SAN
Storage area network is new to our organization. We plan to implement one next year to consolidate storage across several physical locations/divisions. Do you have any practical advice on implementation?
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| February 3, 2009 3:35 PM
SAN
ISCSI storage virtualization?
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: Happy with a new purchase but I’m getting confused on terms like iSCSI storage virtualization and auto-Provisioning of massive (2TB) logical volumes — can you help? I was searching the web for iSCSI target software and I wound up purchasing SANmelody software from DataCore. I thought I was getting disk virtualization, [...]
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| July 30, 2008 1:06 PM
DataCore, iSCSI, Storage virtualization
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: Happy with a new purchase but I’m getting confused on terms like iSCSI storage virtualization and auto-Provisioning of massive (2TB) logical volumes — can you help? I was searching the web for iSCSI target software and I wound up purchasing SANmelody software from DataCore. I thought I was getting disk virtualization, [...]
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| July 30, 2008 1:06 PM
DataCore, iSCSI, Storage virtualization
File and folder syncronization solution
Hello everyone, I’m looking for some suggestions from in choosing a file/folder synchronization application that workS well over WAN links. I have several locations that I need to replicate data to my datacenter for backup. Currently we FTP a compressed copy, but the time frame to move all this data is starting to pose issues [...]
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| November 19, 2004 10:40 AM
Storage
Hello everyone, I’m looking for some suggestions from in choosing a file/folder synchronization application that workS well over WAN links. I have several locations that I need to replicate data to my datacenter for backup. Currently we FTP a compressed copy, but the time frame to move all this data is starting to pose issues [...]
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| November 19, 2004 10:40 AM
Storage
Moving spool files from one AS400 to another
I’m having a problem retaining the spool file attributes when I tranfer spool files from one ISeries to another. I can use the SNDTCPSPLF and it retains most of the attributes but does not retain the user and date/time attributes of the original spool file. Any suggestions??
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| November 26, 2009 5:47 AM
AS/400, Backup & recovery, DB2, DB2 administration, DB2 Implementation, Hardware, Installation/Upgrades, Migration, Tech support, UDB for iSeries/i5
I’m having a problem retaining the spool file attributes when I tranfer spool files from one ISeries to another. I can use the SNDTCPSPLF and it retains most of the attributes but does not retain the user and date/time attributes of the original spool file. Any suggestions??
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| November 26, 2009 5:47 AM
AS/400, Backup & recovery, DB2, DB2 administration, DB2 Implementation, Hardware, Installation/Upgrades, Migration, Tech support, UDB for iSeries/i5
Backups to disk across GB ethernet – what’s your speed limit?
We don’t have a SAN yet. We’re trying to improve backup and disaster recovery time windows so we have been testing backups to disk using the following: Windows 2003 Server Dell PowerEdge server 2GB RAM 2xXeon P4′s Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 (backup file size set to 1GB each) SATA hardware RAID controller w/ 64 MB [...]
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| September 25, 2008 3:20 PM
Backup & recovery, Dell PowerEdge, Disaster Recovery, RAID, SAN, SATA, Veritas Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003
We don’t have a SAN yet. We’re trying to improve backup and disaster recovery time windows so we have been testing backups to disk using the following: Windows 2003 Server Dell PowerEdge server 2GB RAM 2xXeon P4′s Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 (backup file size set to 1GB each) SATA hardware RAID controller w/ 64 MB [...]
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| September 25, 2008 3:20 PM
Backup & recovery, Dell PowerEdge, Disaster Recovery, RAID, SAN, SATA, Veritas Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003
indexes status error Chkdsk won’t run on (SCSI) Disk 0 with FAT and NTFS Need advice.
System indicates indexes status error: “index entry bac3pm.ini in index $130 of file 50″ and “index error bac3pm.tmp in index $130 of file 50″ and system running very slowly. Attempts to repair problem are prevented, I believe, because (SCSI disk 0) C: drive was set up with a small 39MB EISA sector/partition using FAT (I [...]
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| February 3, 2009 2:51 PM
CHKDSK, FAT and NTFS, NTFS, SCSI, Windows
System indicates indexes status error: “index entry bac3pm.ini in index $130 of file 50″ and “index error bac3pm.tmp in index $130 of file 50″ and system running very slowly. Attempts to repair problem are prevented, I believe, because (SCSI disk 0) C: drive was set up with a small 39MB EISA sector/partition using FAT (I [...]
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| February 3, 2009 2:51 PM
CHKDSK, FAT and NTFS, NTFS, SCSI, Windows
