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bithunter- If you are trying to recover specific data, and those drives were part of a RAID group (a RAID-5 for example), the data is going to be scrambled via the RAID striping. -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

hidden75- A hub is controlled or "owned" when it connects to a switch. You cannot connect a hub to 2 switches simultaneously, and as you noted, a FC4500's 2 ports on an SP are hubbed. I've even tried putting a host on one and switch on the other and that didn't work, but in my understanding...

Quick question, if you wouldn't mind. When you had the landevice settings only (and not the host agent as well), what features were you able to administer and manage, and what were you not able to manage? -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

Oh, I know all about that password. That has nothing to do with my issue. My version FLARE doesn't support the combination of commpath and failover mode that I need for powerpath. -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

I can't switch back to the FC4500 until I upgrade flare, as I want/need PowerPath support. Thanks, though, the conf file helped -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

my FC4500 FLARE is downrev, that's why I can't switch it. I'm a home user of this device, I have no EMC contract or reseller relationship in order to upgrade it further. -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

Nice! If I could only upgrade my FC4500 to a newer FLARE, I'd go back to it and sell my FC4700-2 and pocket the difference. I didn't like managing it through a single port, and I couldn't use power path, so I may hook it up this weekend and see if I can get it to work over the LAN ports as you...

A CLARiiON, to be supported by PowerPath for failover, must be able accept setttings for the host definition as "commpath=1". This tells it to advertise to that host that it has a LUN on each path (a special zero byte LUN on the passive side, and the regular LUN on the active side). I was...

Can you post your results (what you changed when you "figured it out") here? Thanks -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

My mistake... my suggestion will work if the FC4700-1 is running sufficiently new software with the Navisphere Management Server running on the FC. If you are running 5.x, then you'll still need to figure out your security issue. I can't help with that at the moment, I'm running an FC4700 and it...

The use of a serial cable for an FC4700 is limited to using it as a PPP link (IP over serial). See step 5 in: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor-sys/fc4700/setupgd.pdf (note, that is not a detailed guide, but rather just an overview, details such as factory passwords are not included)...

Have you tried pointing your browser at the IP address of the 4700-1 instead of pointing at a local version of Navisphere? -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com

VXworks is a lightweight OS used in old Brocade switches, amongst other systems that require a small operating environment. If I recall correctly, IP4700 FLARE is based on VXWorks. So I think Kewitz is confusing the FC and the IP. Please note, Kewitz, that the only thing the IP and FC have...

I just bought 4 replacement batteries (listed as replacement for both the Yuasa and the Panasonic) from batterywholesale.com for $11.75 each, plus 9.95 shipping from Texas to CA. So for $56.95, I will refurbish one of my 2 SPS units that has recently stopped coming up green. I was going to buy...

Contact me (see my sig), I might be able to help you upgrade your systems. Where are you located? -- Bill Plein a.k.a. squiddog Contact me at http://squadengine.com