Just got a new ZBOOK G4 and i added my old sata HHD (that was on my old ZBOOK) but somehow the HHD is not detected in the BIOS ... is there anything special we need to do on the hardware in order for the second drive to work ... (other than placing the HHD in the caddy and place the drive inside the laptop of course)

I have a Perc 5/i installed on a PowerEdge 1900.  I have four 750gb hard drives that are in a RAID5, potentially.  The Virtual Disk was initialized and when I just hit the Enter key on Controller 0 I am told:

Configuration is not allowed!
ERROR Code: Unknown

There are no errors outputted on the tiny screen.  Yesterday it told me that the ROMB battery was dead, so I replaced that, and now no more errors.  However, there is this problem now.

I have an old PowerEdge 1900 that has a Perc 5/i in it.  I go into the configuration utility and select RAID5 for setup.  I have 4 750gb hard drives, so it comes out to 2.2 tb, or close to it.  I initialize the disk and when that is done I step through the rest of the process and on the last page I select "APPLY" then CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot.  Upon rebooting there is a message that says "All of the disks from your previous configuration are gone".  It tells me that there are 0 logical drives on the host adapter, and obviously, 0 logical drives handled by BIOS.  What is the issue?

hi,

can you recommend a good wireless memory 1T or more?

Thanks.

Microsoft advises me that backing up a Windows 10 computer to achieve full restore, if required, is best done with an external hard drive that contains an app designed for this purpose.

Experts, please, identify and comment on external hard drives that contain the app.

The external hard drive must be able to store and restore everything needed for Windows 10 to be installed on a new internal hard drive that is a replacement for its predecessor that totally failed.

Thanks

Gordon

I have a system that I built myself with a GigaByte mother board.

I set the BIOS to have boot order be the USB Thumb Drive and then the CDRom but it just goes right by them into the Windows Boot disk.

I have booted from them before so I believe that they are good but just goes right by them.

I need to boot into Norton Ghost 15 recover to restore my system after a Samsung SSD failure.

I am going to try and build another CD boot disk, Link to good procedure would be awesome.

Is there a utility that can manage the boot or a known good boot iso image that I can download?

See photos of Bios Setting attached.Booting-to-Usb-fails.pdf

Thanks,

Steve

Hello Experts,

Does anyone know the procedure for backing up the Raid module configuration on a Dell MD3260?  We are replacing the Raid module controller battery and have it listed in the steps to save a copy of the configuration file in the MD Management console but it does not have any further instruction.

Thank you,

GTS

I have an HP MSA 2040 and I just inserted a replacement drive and I want to start the rebuild.  I know it's supposed to be automatic, but is there a way to manually start the rebuild and is there a way to monitor the rebuild?

Thanks

Cliff

This problem just recently appeared and I can't figure out what is going on.

First some specs:
- Core i5 @3.8 GHz, 32GB
- Windows 10 Pro - 64bit
- MediaSonic ProRAID box on eSATA

Writing to other drives is at typical speeds.

The problem appeared just recently where moving mixed data files (various sizes from 1MB to 1GB to the MediaSonic will begin writing at around 70 MB/s and withing 20 seconds, the write speed will fall to between 600 KB/s to 4 MB/s. This isn't normal and in the past, I could sustain an average write speed of ~ 90 MB/s.

Observed:
- If I cancel the write operation, the drive will continue writing for a long time (20 minutes) - it appears to have a backlog of files still writing - when looking at the resource monitor.
- Task Manager shows 100% utilisation until all the writing is completed.

What I am reasonably certain about:
- No known changes to the computer.
- No error or RAID failures on the MediaSonic.
- Read speeds on MediaSonic are normal.
- No viruses.

What I've tried:
- Shutting down Windows 10 notifications (lot's of chatter about that).

NOTE:

The one characteristic that has changed is that I enabled Windows 10 disk compression on selected folders of the MediaSonic volume.
I just did some testing and found the following:
- Writing to a compressed folder: sustained speed average: ~ 1.5 MB/s
- Writing to a non-compressed folder: sustained speed average: ~ 16 MB/s

In both cases, the …

We are using EMC VNX 5300 which is running out of space. It also hosts CIFS shares which are heavily nested. Plan is to add another DAE, have quota enabled file system and move CIFS shares to the newly allocated space. Any suggestions on how this can be achieved with minimal efforts.

As per understanding:
1. Add new DAE via Unisphere.
2. Create a new storage pool. (RAID 6+2)
3. Provision new LUN and create volume.
4. create file system.
5.create mount point and mount on datamover.
6. create quota trees.
7. Create cifs share.
These parameters to be identical to the existing file system from which data will be copied. And,

If this looks okay, any inputs on next procedures..  Thank You!

Instead tape to tape library and the tape can be move to drive or slot. What is the purpose\ advantage of drive?