Monthly Archives: October 2011

The IPv6 Address Space The most obvious difference between the two protocols is the length of their source and destination addresses. The whole point of making the switch to IPv6 is to compensate for a global shortage of IP addresses. It … Continue reading →

The Server Message Protocol (SMB) is the file sharing protocol used by default on Windows-based computers.  Although file sharing and network protocols are primarily supported by our Networking team, it is important to understand how SMB works given its importance … Continue reading →

DFS namespace link name was the same as the share name so when DFS fowarded the referral request it ended up back at the DFS namespace again instead of the computers share. This issue was only found with 2008 as … Continue reading →

The following events indicates a potential failure.         /* 0x01  */    “TOO SMALL IN LOAD CONFIG”,         /* 0x02  */    “ERROR ERASING RIS”,         /* 0x03  */    “ERROR SAVING RIS”,         /* 0x04  */    “FAIL DRIVE COMMAND”,         /* 0x05  */    “MARK BAD FAILED”,         /* 0x06  */    “MARK BAD FAILED IN FINISH REMAP”,         /* 0x07  */    “TIMEOUT”,         /* 0x08  */    “AUTOSENSE FAILED”,         /* 0x09  */    “MEDIUM ERROR 1”,         /* 0x0A  */    “MEDIUM ERROR 2”,         /* 0x0B  */    “NOT READY BAD SENSE”,         /* 0x0C  */    “NOT READY”,         /* 0x0D  */    “HARDWARE ERROR”,         /* 0x0E  */    “ABORTED COMMAND”,         /* 0x0F  */    “WRITE PROTECTED”,         /* 0x10  */    “SPINUP FAILURE IN RECOVERY”,         /* 0x11  */    “REBUILD WRITE ERROR”,         /* 0x12  */    “TOO SMALL IN HOT PLUG”,         /* 0x13  */    “BUS RESET RECOVERY ABORTED”,         /* 0x14  */    “REMOVED IN HOT PLUG”,         /* 0x15  */    “INIT REQUEST SENSE FAILED”,         /* 0x16  */    “INIT START UNIT FAILED”,         /* 0x17  */    “INQUIRY FAILED”,         /* 0x18  */    “NON DISK DEVICE”,         /* 0x19  */    “READ CAPACITY FAILED”,         /* 0x1A  */    “INVALID BLOCK SIZE”,         /* 0x1B  */    “HOT PLUG REQUEST SENSE FAILED”,         /* 0x1C  */    “HOT PLUG START UNIT FAILED”,         /* 0x1D  */    “WRITE ERROR AFTER REMAP”,         /* 0x1E  */    “INIT RESET RECOVERY ABORTED”,         /* 0x1F  */    “DEFERRED WRITE ERROR”,         /* 0x20  */    “MISSING IN RIS SAVE”,         /* 0x21  */    “WRONG REPLACE”, … Continue reading →