On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 07:57, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Find out what other ways can you use it (other than iSCSI), and what >>> the limits are then. That information may be helpful. >> >> It does SAN, but I quite leery about it. > > (I assume you mean SMB.)
Sorry - meant NAS, so yes, SMB/CIFS - fingers move quicker than the brain... > They've given you reason to be leery. > But, for investigation purposes, trying out other modes of operation > might give insight into this problem, if nothing else. If this was > pre-sales I'd recommend just crossing them off the list, but I presume > you're stuck with the thing now, and have to make it work as best you > can. There may be a workaround, by chaining together some LUNs (perhaps in Windows, too), but that seems like a fugly hack to me. >> And, that's part of the reason I asked - if this unit's bigger >> brethren can handle studly GPT volumes as well as Win2k3 can, then >> it's truly a bad decision to hold back on it for market >> differentiation. > > Your company bought it anyway, so maybe not. And I'm bitching about it on a list that is widely read, and where I have a modicum of respect afforded my opinions, so I'll hold fast to my thought on that... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
