Posted on January 10th, 2008 by thehabgroup
How to assign a drive letter
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To assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:
1.
Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2.
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go […]
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Posted on November 12th, 2007 by thehabgroup
Normally recommended free space should not drop below 15 percent of drive size.
Here are some common symptoms of low computer hard disk space.
The computer stops responding (hangs) unexpectedly, infrequently, or at random intervals.
The computer hangs, or automatically restarts (often without error messages in the event logs).
The computer repeatedly hangs or automatically restarts at predictable intervals […]
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by thehabgroup
There are instances where the mapping of attached tape device become out of order after a Windows server reboot. This may occur if one or more of the tape drives is either inaccessible or does not respond to the server correctly as the server is enumerating tape devices on boot.
Check HBA Card Settings:
HBAs usually […]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by thehabgroup
Here are a list of some of the potential causes of poor SAN performance:
HBA firmware, drivers, configuration settings
Fibre Channel switch configuration issues
Contention in the SAN between the server and storage
Settings on the storage unit
“Split I/O” on hardware RAID volumes
Conflicting software or drivers
Troubleshooting steps to take:
Update outdated HBA firmware and drivers as they may resolve the […]
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Posted on September 4th, 2007 by thehabgroup
● 182335: INFO: Format of Event Log Data Created by ScsiPortLogError
● 244780: Information About Event ID 51
● 816004: Description of the Event ID 50 Error Message
● 277222: System may not start when creating a large number of logical units
● 234048: How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves, and Stores Drive Letters
● 248345: How to Create a Log […]
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Posted on September 4th, 2007 by thehabgroup
The following are system events that are symptoms of I/O hanging or blocking between a host
and storage device(s):
Event ID: 3
Source: LDM
Description: [computername] A Dynamic Volume
(\Device\HarddiskDmVolumes\(diskgroup)\Volume(n)) has failed.
Event ID: 9
Source: [scsi miniport driver]
Description: The device, \Device\ScsiPort1, did not respond within the
timeout period.
Event ID: 15
Source: [scsi miniport driver]
Description: The device, \Device\ScsiPort1, is not ready for access yet.
Event […]
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