Recent content by Ruxl

Here are instructions; I did this a few years back and didn't have any issues. No longer had to rely on the verizon router for any internet related duties & still had VOD/PPV & guides on the STB. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20006536-Make-your-actiontec-a-bridge-with-VOD-working-with-REV-D

This is getting a bit more complicated, but you could always give them read/write to their individual turn-in directory, and then create a scheduled task that runs at the end of the period (or whatever) that runs as a more priviledged user and moves any submitted files to another directory that...

What you have proposed is basically my home ESXi box. I only have 1 samsung 840, and performance is phenomenal with 8 low-to-modest use guests (5x Ubuntu, 2x 2012, 1x FreeBSD). Ubuntu installs in something silly like 5-6 minutes; rebooting windows the server is back up and running faster...

I have newznab hitting ~150 groups to 1600 days back with sphinx and percona all running on traditional HDDs without any noticable performance hit, but the only user on it is me. In my case I have the host sitting on a non-pro 840, and mounted /var/www to the HDD for space considerations.

Save ~$35 of that $100 and get the memory at superbiiz rather than Amazon. Just had a friend get them from superbiiz via ebay for ~$47/ea rather than the $52/ea on the superbiiz site, too. You could also save another $10 by getting the motherboard from them. While I'm not usually one to nit...

Actually, a bit cheaper: 146.99 X9SCL-F-B - Its only $1 more than the X9SCL-B but note that the "B" means its bulk packaging. With the SSD I would imagine you would want a C204 chipset for the SATA3, the cheapest SM boards I've found are in the $180 range though. Personally I would step...

I use these in my X9SCM-F without issue, and they are only $52/ea.

It appears I may have got it! When I was creating the RDM, I was using the "t10.ATA_____ST3000DM00blahblahblah______serialnum" reference. Changing it to the "vml.0100000000202020202020212312421352435" reference in the creation of the RDM, and now I have a 2.7+ TB RAW disk available in disk...

Yep - in Ubuntu I formatted the drives, copied files, etc. without issue. I can't say I copied over 2TB worth of files, but they formatted as 2.73TiB if I recall. Can't split it into multiple RDM's as I wouldn't have physical mappings at that point. Once I get this sorted I have a handful...

I can access all 3TB of each drive, as long as I'm not in Windows, and I'm fairly sure the 2TB limit is a VMFS limitation, not an RDM issue as I can find tons of information on traditionally connected RDMs that are much larger than 2TB. Its just Windows that is being the pain.

I believe that is what I'm already doing. My process: on ESXi console, run "ls -l" from /vmfs/devices/disks Pull the disk path, and run "vmkfstool -z /vmfs/devices/disks/<disk path> /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/RDM/<name of RDM>.vmdk This then allows me to add the disk to the guest as a...

Mind you these aren't datastores, and are created in a VMware "unsupported" method. If I create them as a typical vmdk I don't get SMART access to the drive, and I can't physically disconnect the drive and plop it into another windows box nearly as easily. They aren't formatted to VMFS...

They are on virtual LSI Logic SAS controllers, although I have tried Logic Parallel and Paravirtual with the same results. Both drives are showing the same symptoms, and are connected to SCSI channel 1:0 and 1:1. Due to drives being locally attached, in vSphere they show as vmdk's, created...

If this repair shop works on any financial or healthcare related computers they could be in for a world of hurt. Any non-public information that they now possess could implicate them in addition to the original owner of the data should it ever come in the wrong hands, or should they or any of...

I unfortunately do not have any sub-3TB drives other than the datastore drive. That said, I'm pretty darn confident it isn't the VMFS 2TB limit, as it is a physical RDM (-z rather than -r) and non-MS operating systems see it as the full 3TB drive.