Cool :) Queuing the access calls to the disk via the same channels that the hosting windows application uses may well be the way for getting SPTI to work without corrupting the data. It will probably be a bit slower that the current implementation, but what the hell... The current SPTI is just as mu...

I noticed the same problem with a 2000 Pro machine. The disk I had tested to use as an export did not show up in Disk Management even when I had removed the binding in the StarWind manager and rebooted the machine. Furthermore Disk Manager took a very long time to initialise and show that disks wher...

I am trying with SPTI because I dont want to bind my data in a proprietary format.

In an attempt to stop windows on the target machine from messing with the shared data disks I removed the System Volume Information as well as Recycler folders and then went into disk manager and removed the drive letter from one of the disks. This should render the disk logically inaccessible to th...

Hmm, too bad, I'm not much of a linux person. It would have been soo easy to manage this solution if windows just kept its tentacles off the disks that dont contain any system or related files. Using NTFS it's five minutes work to move a disk from one machine to another and keep the data intact. If ...

Heh, just saw another thing while digging through the logs created by StarWind. All Timestamps are off a couple of whole hours... My timezone is CET (I had to doublecheck to se if I had missed that server setting, I had not..) All new log entries showed exactly 2 hours in the past compared to the sy...

Hello Guys. Wonderful apps StarWind/StarPort! I have strarted messing with them for my ATA server environment. What worries me is that the Machine running StarWind always wants to perform a Scandisk on all exported disks every time I restart it. Usually it finds no errors, but it implies that the NT...