Storage

Offline and unreadable sectors on new HD
Hi, I've setup a brand new Maxtor 300 Gb drive, and smartd keeps telling me this : Device: /dev/hdd, 100 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Device: /dev/hdd, 104 Offline uncorrectable sectors I wonder if this something acceptable for such a big drive, or a sign that it won't live very long. Full smart... 30 Jan 2006 15:27

recognising card reader!
Using XP. Memory stick is recognised in'My Computer'as Removable Disc 'F'. A Card Reader plugged into the same USBport does not show in 'My Computer' at all. However if I go into 'Portable media devises' via Control Panel, it does show up as Removable disc 'I' for SD card and Removable disc 'G' for XD card. Why doe... 27 Jan 2006 19:47

Boot.ini question
A line in my boot.ini is: default=multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \WINDOWS... I figured out (I think) that rdisk (0) is drive 0 or the C: drive. Also partition (2) must be the second partition in the C: drive or drive 0. (Dell-purchased computer that has the XP operation system on the second par... 9 Feb 2006 18:56

BIOS sees 6GB; Linux sees 250GB
I know this question comes up time and time again... but I just want to make sure what I am seeing is true. I have an old Aptiva Pentium 200MMX computer. I want to run FreeNAS on it with a set of three 250GB hard drives. I downloaded the most current BIOS (dated 2003) from IBM for this computer. But, still wh... 23 Jan 2006 10:05

SATA vs SCSI
I know, that old chestnut :-) We're currently running a five year old Dell PowerEdge 4400 server with 5 x 70GB Hitachi Ultra 160 SCSI drives in RAID-5 giving us ~280GB disk space. This server hosts our file share, SQL 7 and Exchange 5.5 services. But the time has come to plan for the future and upgrade where a... 2 Feb 2006 11:25

Strange Screws
I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate 80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a picture of a screw here: http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriv... 20 Feb 2006 19:55

identify hard drive
Hello. I've got 2 IDE hard drives and an external drive connected with USB2. I've recently got the following error "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk4\D during a paging operation." Does anyone know how I can tell which drive is Harddisk4? Thanks. ... 13 Jan 2006 12:28

What is SPIFFI
What is SPIFFI and what is its relation to storage system? When I start Qlogic's SANSurfer Pro HBA management software, its gives me a warning that the attached device (an IBM DS4300) is non-SPIFFI compliant. Product documentation doesn't throw much light on it. - Siddhartha ... 10 Jan 2006 08:09

SMART and Offline Seek Performance attribute
I recently installed a SMART monitoring program called Hard Drive Inspector (http://www.altrixsoft.com/en/hddinsp/) and for the past few days it has been telling me about an iminent failure of a Maxtor 160GB ATA disk installed in my PC. The only SMART attribute I can see that is low is the Offline Seek Performance... 12 Jan 2006 12:59

PC3000 ISA - BASIC COURSE
PC3000 ISA - BASIC COURSE Basic course of the PC3000 complex hardware and software system. Here the user will have the opportunity to learn what is PC3000 and how to setup it. The HDDLAB company is the result of years of work and study of a professional that start it in 1986, in the begun HDLLAB was a company ... 5 Jan 2006 06:36