Xserve + 3rd party disk array

So now that the XRAID has been EOL'ed, I have a question that's quite possibly silly. Is the Promise disk array the only compatible array for Xserve or are there alternative (such as Dell, HP or other brands). And if so, what models, interface, ...
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Donald has you covered for the rest but this question:
Did the XRAID connect directly to an Xserve
Yes. Essentially you use a mac. Could be an XServe but could equally be any desktop model that meets the minimum qualifying spec for OSX Server. Anything from a G4 MDD to a high spec MacPro will do. As long as the model decided upon has a free PCI slot. An Apple FC PCI Card and two FC cables and thats it. Basically think of it as a large external drive attached to a host using fibre channel cables. It does not even have to be Server Software. Client software will do equally as well. If you have enough PCI slots (3 or more) you could have 3 or more XRAIDs connected to it.
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3rd Party Hard Drives on Intel Xserve

We purchased an Intel Xserve with 3 80GB Apple SATA drives in the three bays. As we did with our G4 Xserve previously, we wanted more storage and opted to install higher capacity drives.
We ended up buying four (don't ask!) Seagate Baracuda 400GB SATA 7200 drives. Two worked fine but the other two would (about half the time) either show up on the login desktop about 15-45 seconds after the main desktop appeared after a reboot and occasionally wouldn't show up at all until another reboot was performed. Only about 1/3 of the time they actually show up fine and simultaneously when the main login desktop loads (like they should).
So thinking it might be a vendor problem, we purchased a Maxtor 500GB SATAII 7200 drive. Same problem.
On the occasions when the drives don't show up at all, System Profiler doesn't show anything in the bay, nor does Disk Utility see it. Nothing in the system.log or hwmond.log.
There didn't seem to be any problems with the original 3 80GB Apple drives (also Seagate Barracudas) that originally came with the Intel Xserve.
Does anyone know why this may be happening? Is it Apple's way of forcing you to buy their (overpriced) hard disks? Why would 2 of 5 3rd party drives work OK and the other 3 not?
We never had a problem using numerous 3rd party SATA drives in our existing G4 Xserve.

Don,
We' upgraded our 2 80GB Apple SATA drives to Maxtor 750 SATAII drives (the ones Apple appears to use in their own modules of that size). I found one drive would consistently mount just fine, either after a reboot or removing and reinserting the module. The other would stay in "orange light" condition - never attempting to access it. (no blue light flicker). What I found after taking the drive back out of the module and reinstalling it is that there appears to be a great sensitivity to pressure on a cable that runs under the drive (and appears to only activate the lights in the front of the drive). For instance, I tested by not screwing the drive into the module at all (mearly letting gravity keep it in the module) and hooking it back up. It mounted immediately. Putting one screw in at a time, I found that the drive would not mount after inserting the second screw. More games allowed me to get all four screws in, the drive would mount but the lights would stay orange. Leaving the drive screwed in, but putting some finger pressure on a side of the drive near the front of the module shifted the drive slightly, and afterwards the drive mounted properly with appropriate signal light behavior.
If your drive is anything like mine, my guess is that it is very slightly larger than the 80GB drive and pressing the cable into the frame either shorting it, or giving it bad contact via pressure on it's connector at the back of the module. Try shifting the cable, relieving pressure on the drive, etc. until it appears to reliably mount. I've had no problems with the drive since performing this proceedure (though it's only been a bit over a week).
Good luck!
G5 Desktop 2x2GHz (first release); Pro 3x3; Xserve (Intel); etc. Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Using Xserve with Sun StorageTek Disk Array

Hi
Is it possible to connect an Xserve with a Fibre Channel Card installed to a Sun StorageTek 6140 Disk Array?
I don't see any devices in /dev. Is the Xserve limited to the Xserve RAID or can it be used with other storage solutions? Do I need to purchase Xsan to do this (e.g. partition, format and mount a device from the Sun disk array)?
Xserve (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Oh my, I should retire...
When I read that page I somehow confused all that X* stuff... :o/
I was wondering if it is possible to connect other
storage solutions than the Xserve RAID (like the Sun
StorageTek ones) directly (or via switch) to an
Xserve (the pizza box server )
Of course you can connect any DAS storage device that presents itself as a raw device on the device channel in use (fc, scsi, ...).
But reading the specs on that special Sun Raid I'd say that it falls into another category: SAN storage. And therefore it needs OS support/drivers which seem to be available only for Solaris, Linux and Win.
How exactly do I partition, format and mount the
virtual device under Mac OS X Server?
DiscUtility.app? In CLI: diskutil
I want to try this procedure:
Connect the Sun Diskarray to the Xserve via the
copper cables.
(Perhaps reboot the Xserve)
Partition with pdisk
mkfs.xfs (or something similar mac os like)
/dev/sda(x)
mount /dev/sda1 /Users/
diskutil
see man diskutil
But as said I guess you can't access this kind of SAN storage device.
Am I completely wrong? It's the procedure in Linux,
so it can't be very different in BSD (say: Mac OS
X)...
Same procedure as every year: install the driver then drink.
-Ralph

How can I burn an updated (10.4.5) boot disk that includes 3rd party apps?

My install disk is ancient (10.4.0) and, when I run disk first aid, I also like to run Disk Warrior and, perhaps, Drive Genius. Please tell me how to burn a bootable DVD with a simple, yet adequate system, that also contains 3rd party utilities as well as Safari and other Apple apps.
Many thanks!
PowerMac G5 1.8 GHz Dual Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.5 G RAM, DSL (sometimes with router)

There are two ways to do this that will work better than a DVD. I have a portable firewire drive I take home every night and back to work again in the morning. I have a system installed along with Disk Warrior so I can boot off of it whenever necessary to run repairs.
The second method also involves a firewire HD. Use SuperDuper! to clone your system HD on to the firewire drive. Then everything is backed up (which you should be doing anyway) and you also have a system to boot from with all your apps on it.
I really can't emphasize this enough, but back up is very important and will save you much time and pain. Take these examples:
When I installed Tiger for the first time I had cloned my HD just before that using SuperDuper! Sure enough, I ran into problems almost right away but was in the middle of deadlines and did not have time to deal with it for a few days. I merely rebooted off the clone which still had 10.3.9 on it and went to work like nothing was different, because it was exactly my hard drive. Then when I had time I went back and figured out the issues with Tiger.
On a recent update to 10.4.5 I cloned my drive right before then did the download and update. I rarely have any problems with updates but this time I did with things acting strangely. Rather than waste time trying to figure out what was wrong I booted off my clone and restored my system back to when it was running fine. Then did the update again and this time no problems.

Disk Doctor Fails, S.M.A.R.T , anyway to fix with a 3rd party utility?

On my server, I get a Disk Doctor Fails, S.M.A.R.T , anyway to fix with a 3rd party utility?
Thanks

If you're looking for help testing the Disk Doctor diagnostic tool, then you'll need to work with those folks and with the particular details of the SMART data being returned from the disk you're working with; the former and contents of the SMART data can vary by vendor.
But given you're using a disk diagnostic and posting here, I'll assume that you're having I/O problems, and the "fix" is to replace the drive.
If you're working with a dual-disk Mac Mini Server with software RAID enabled, the data can be recovered from the mirror.
If you don't have a current backup and don't have mirroring enabled and need some data off the disk that's reporting SMART errors, then you may end up working with a disk data recovery package, or a data recovery firm. (I wouldn't spend much time attempting this, too, as performing disk verifications and related activities on a questionable or failing disk can reduce the chances of recovering the remaining disk data.)

Can I attach a third-party SCSI disk array to my CE-565 ??

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I am not sure if it will work or not as I dont have one to test. It is definately not supported though and the likelyhood of it working is not high.
Either way, as I stated above, it will not be supported by Cisco since Cisco does no regression testing with 3rd party SCSI devices among other reasons.
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3rd Party SAN Device

I have a new XServer running OS X 10.4.8. It has two FC cards. I have a 3rd Party SAN device in the same rack. I configured a 3.9TB array\Logical drive and presented it to the Mac. When I open the Disk utility, I see only a 2TB drive. What can or do I need to do so that OS X sees then entire array?
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Thank you for the response. I guess that is the question I am asking. I do not know who or what component is in play here. I have 1 array that is 3.9 TB. I created a single 3.9TB logical drive on the array and presented it to the HBA connected to the MAC. At this point, isn't a drive a drive? Is this an OS X issue? The SAN is from Gateway but is made by Hitachi.
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Is there a 3rd Party Solution for Adobe's lack of recover for unsaved work?

Time and time again I am baffled by Adobe's inability or refusal to make the user experience consistent across it's entire Creative Suite.
I am repeatedly shocked by the punitive error messages I receive in Photoshop. It's as though you don't really care what the user wants, I mean what are we going to do, use MS Paint? So you are at liberty to provide such classic errors as "Unable to complete your request because of a program error" instead of "wait, did you mean apply that filter to the only visible layer that you had selected just seconds before and never requested that the layer be de-selected?" I could go on and on with the crazy and convoluted exceptions to logic in Photoshop, but I would rather just understand why, when you know that a problem exists and affects 90% of your users at some point, why wouldn't you try to build in some form of recovery when your program crashes
Why should I be punished for relying on your program not to crash when I am working on something? I have repeatedly been advised that the best solution is to save often. Sometimes that's not an option and why should it be my responsibility to compensate for your buggy program?
After 20 years of development, you can't figure out how to recover someone's work if they haven't been able to save for some reason and Phtooshop crashes? I have been using Photoshop since Version 3 (for sure, but more likely version 2) and back then you could rename your temp files and recover the work you hadn't saved. I understand that the mechanism by which fast previews (comps) of your work are displayed but not applied (like Live Image), but why isn't it possible to store a simple text file that could retrace my steps if your program crashes?
This is a real problem if you are processing a filter that takes 30 minutes and Photoshop waits until 29 minutes and 59 seconds to announce that it stopped working. Granted you can see your document in the background, but you can't save it? You can't commit whatever is in RAM for the undo states to disk? You can't have your program quickly save a new text file with the list of commands applied between saves? You can't do anything? After 20 years?
Microsoft includes recovery in Word, Excel, etc. Even SOME Adobe programs do it: InDesign...AfterEffects. Why doesn't your flagship program do it?
It's frustrating beyond belief and it baffles me that Adobe is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Photoshop and yet this basic, basic customer need is still not effectively addressed and furthermore, any question about it is answered with indignant indifference:
it doesn't work and we don't care what you want,
think you'd be happier with our competition....
oh wait, we don't really have any competition...
maybe you should save more often...
Is there a 3rd party solution that will allow me to recover my work in Photoshop when it crashes between saves? Or am I just stuck having to cope with rebuilding my work because Adobe refuses to provide a solution.
(let the backlash begin as I try to simulate my lens blur using MS Paint....not gonna happen)
Jase

Go to google and search for keyboard recording software. That will record all of your keystrokes.
CS4 running under windows 7 appearently has some problems. While it would be nice if Adobe went back and rewrote there software for an operating system that was in early development when CS4 was released, it is not likely to happen.
Excuse me, they did it is called Adobe Photoshop CS5 and is due to be release soon.
If, If you would stop ranting for a minute, and quit feeling like you are being slammed, and possibly listen for a minute.
I am currently running Windows Vista Home Premium "not my choice" on a Toshiba A215-S4747 with 3gb ram. When I bought this laptop the Toshiba Rep was at the Best Buy and I spoke with him about this very computer. I did not want to run Windows Vista, period, I had heard to many bad reports about it. The Toshiba Rep told me that was not a problem and this computer would run Windows XP Professional just fine.
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this computer will in fact run Windows XP Pro just fine as long as you take into consideration that there are almost no hardware drivers for the periferals that make up this computer.
So I reinstall Windows Vista and for the next year I am tied into fits because of system crashes. Finally I am at the point that I am going to take this computer to the Toshiba Office in Torrance California and personally give it back to them "I was going to throw it through the front office window.".
Just before I ran across memtest and I downloaded it and tested my memory. You got it I had a defective ram chip.
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No one is suggesting that you are an idiot! or inexperienced. but no matter what you do remember 2 very simple rules.
If you run into a problem 1. "Go Back To Basics" and 2. "KISS ie: keep it simple stupid" if you do this and I am speaking from my own experience you will find like and work a lot simpler and more pleasent.

Windows XP Pro doesn't recognise iPOD when in 3rd party Docking Station

Hi All. My iPOD is brand new. If I use the syncing cable that came with it, everything works fine. However If use the 'Logic3' docking station (uses a standard USB cable) or the 'Gear4' docking station (standard ipod cable connects to female socket in rear of dock)I experience the following problems:-
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It makes me think it must be an iPOD problem as neither 3rd party dockig stations work properly.
I've contacted each Manufacturer of the each Dock, but they can't offer any help apart from suggesting I should update my iTunes software. I had already made sure this was up-to-date
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Steve

If I try a different USB port it makes no difference.
If I disconnect them and go back to using the simple
iPOD syncing cable everything is fine.
It makes me think it must be an iPOD problem as
neither 3rd party dockig stations work properly.
I think it might be the other way around. If it works fine with the Apple cable, but there are problems with the third party one, then the problem seems to be with the 3rd party stuff, right?
I've only used speakers w/ a dock (not something that was also hooked up to the `puter) so I can't address your problem directly. There's been a lot of weirdness with the new iTunes, and since your iPod is new I'm thinking these manufacturers aren't up to speed on what changes have been made. Just a guess brother.
BTW, are the docking stations new? I googled "Logic3 docking station" and it came up discontinued.
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I have a brand new iMac that does not have iDVD. Made a move on iMovie installed a 3rd party burn prog. but DVD won't playback on my regular dvd player. Need to burn one that will. Help!

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Nicely explain that you may return the computer without iDVD. That usually does the trick. You MUST speak to a senior advisor to get a free copy. The first tier people cannot do it.
408-996-1010
800-692-7753
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IMac USB no longer recognizing 3rd party phones (BlackBerry, Android, or Symbian).

Hey everyone, this is my first post to this community support group.
Last week, using my iMac, I attempted to install the Ubuntu OS onto my Nexus 7.
I followed some online guides on how to do so, and realized that I was not up to the task. The process involved various things, although the one I suspect created my current problem was inputing Terminal commands (unfortunately, I can not recall the commands I entered).
Not only was I unable to install the Ubuntu OS on my Nexus 7, but now my iMac does not recognize any 3rd party phones (Android, BlackBerry and Symbinan) that are plugged into the USB ports. Prior to this Ubuntu attempt, my iMac recognized all phones plugged into it's USB ports.
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3) I've tried using the phones' interfaces to switch them from USB mass storage, to camera, to charge settings when plugged into the iMac with no effect.
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Hi all.
I'm a longtime lurker, first time poster. I seem to have really stymied myself with trying to upgrade my ol' reliable MBP.
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Begun the Yosemite installer
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Thanks for responding Leopardus.
I tried holding Cmd+R at startup last night, but unfortunately all I got is a flashing folder with a question mark on it, presumably indicating that it can't find any files.
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I have a 3rd party hard drive with movies on it ,it is connected to my airport extreme. The AE is connected to my tv via ethernet cable. Can I stream my movies to the Tv ?

Not without a player..
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Nothing apple makes will do that.. ATV is a streamer not a media player. Everything in the Apple world is tied up with itunes. So you must have a computer running itunes to use it.
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