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Article #403Re: NDIR bug with 4gb drives?
From: James Borchart
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00
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Yes, this definitely works. I have a bunch of elite 9's and found that I had to get the new NDIR. In article <3198fdc8.26632857@news.execpc.com>, emjay@execpc.com (Tom Kustner) wrote: >My colleague walked over the other day, showed me a piece of paper, >and said, "Can you explain this?". > >What he showed me was the end of an NDIR listing done for all the >subdirectories on one of our volumes, which is a Seagate Barracuda >(4.3GB) drive. > >The last two lines of the listing are this: > >3,767,801,107 total bytes in 7663 files >2,172,874,752 total bytes in 530847 blocks > >The bytes number associated with the number of files matches VOLINFO, >etc. > >The bytes number for blocks is much less and makes no sense, given >that the number of bytes for the blocks is always greater than the >number for the files (slack bytes, etc.). > >I searched http://www.dejanews.com to see if others have had this >problem. A couple hits came up, both of them regarding sparse files. >We don't have sparse files here - I have double-checked using the >COUNT command of ARCserve, which I have previously used to find a >sparse file. > >I have since come across something documented at >http://netwire.novell.com (dcoument id 21162) which states a "bug" >with NDIR and large drives. The way to get the correct info is to use >the NDIR from NetWare 4.x. > >This is a very minor issue, but can we use the NDIR from NetWare 4.x >successfully (without corrupting anything)? Being overly-cautious and >slightly paranoid? Guilty as charged. But I'm wondering if others >had seen this problem and used the NDIR from NetWare 4.x (which the >document says is much bigger than the old one). Thanks for any help. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tom Kustner Emjay Corporation >System/LAN Administrator 725 W. Glendale Ave. >Email: emjay@execpc.com Glendale, WI 53209-6509 USA >Phone: (414) 961-0650 >Fax #: (414) 961-1649 Any opinions are mine and not Emjay's.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe659,58be860dbf77f973 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe659,public X-Google-Thread: f8bf7,58be860dbf77f973 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8bf7,public From: james@winternet.com (James Borchart) Subject: Re: NDIR bug with 4gb drives? Date: 1996/05/15 Message-ID: <TtomxA1M1q8a088yn@winternet.com> X-Deja-AN: 155046896 references: <3198fdc8.26632857@news.execpc.com> organization: Complete Disorganization (tm) reply-to: james_e_borchart@notes.seagate.com newsgroups: comp.os.netware.misc,bit.listserv.novell