I can't begin to tell you the amount of times a network support person
has told me there were no problems on their side (even when evidence
points to an external problem) only to come back later and prove it was
on their side.

As far as auto negotiate, I have always had better reliability setting
both the host adapter and switch port to the same fixed speed to assure
that they didn't sync up at a slower speed then expected.

Unless a software support person can quote previous examples or specific
fixes as to why an upgrade is absolutely necessary, when I was not ready
to upgrade, then I would avoid that person at all costs.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Giglio, Paul
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:11 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] An interesting lesson to be learned ( all is not what
it seems)

To all of those TSMrs /system admins that have exhausted all of your
avenues trying to fix something only to find out it wasn't even a
problem on your system...

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I believe my network group might actually take this more series next
time, when I ask them to check out there settings.
I still have not gotten the exact reason why the settings changed.

Regards
A deflated
TSm admin


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