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Selling Defective HDD
Posted on November 4th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Selling the defective HDD, MAXTOR, SEAGATE, WD 20G - 40G devin624@hotmail.com www.pc3khrt.com

How to update Silicon Image sil3114 motherboard BIOS
Posted on November 4th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi guys. I noticed some people in this group know a lot about RAID & I am hoping that they may be able to help me. I want to use the RAID5 functionality that has been added to the newer sil3114...

adding another OS and setting up dual boot?
Posted on November 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Have a large drive and would like to copy another disk&os into one of winNT partitions and set up dual boot - which software tool you recommend I use? thanks

Re: HELP: Need program that runs from a floppy to copy a partition (raw data) from a failing Seagate
Posted on November 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Previously 007@mi6.uk <007@mi6.uk> wrote: A Knoppix bootable CD and dd_rescue it comes with for the drive/partition copy? Arno

Re: Help: Need program to disable/edit S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 3 Comments

Previously 007@mi6.uk <007@mi6.uk> wrote: Not possible. That is completely unnecessary. The smart values do not influence drive behaviour, they merely reflect it. Have a look into the ATA...

Jumper external HDD as master or as cable select?
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 25 Comments

Getting a little confused about this. I have an external IDE HDD that is to be mounted within an external enclosure with a USB to IDE interface (it will be USB cabled to a computer), should that HDD...

Re: Layer
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 0 Comments

Selek Br. wrote: forget it -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form che...@prodigy.net.

IBM DS400 SAN
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 0 Comments

All, Am setting up a DS400 SAN with an array of Dell dual CPU servers running Red Hat Enterprise 4. Have QLogic FC cards installed. FC Switch... etc... I am having issues at the moment with...

Audio Books
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 4 Comments

I would like to condense and audio book down. The original audi book is 17 cd's. Is there a way that I can compress it and make i fit onto fewer cdr's Thanks

Q: Jumper settings for TEAC Combofloppy FD-505 to disable one drive
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hello, what are the jumper settings for a TEAC Combofloppy ("TEAC FD-505 dual floppy disk drive", only one floppy-connector for both floppies) to _completely_ disable the 3,5" drive, whose head is...

Re: Need program that runs from a floppy to copy a partition (raw data) from a failing Seagate
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 0 Comments

007@mi6.uk wrote Thats normally just because the data structures have got corrupted so XP decides its unformatted. That's overstating it with that always claim, tho it is the best approach if the...

Re: Need program to disable/edit S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 0 Comments

007@mi6.uk wrote That can be done with some drives, the drive allows that. Pointless, that wont achieve anything. The SMART system in the drive doesnt prevent access,

Re: Best USB2 to Ultra ATA 100 adapter card or external HDD?
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 0 Comments

"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message news: Oops, it's 33 MHz. Data transfer is then dependent on how wide they occur.

Computer won't boot from new HD
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

Here is my dilemma. I was preparing to perform a fresh windows xp pro install on my system with a Seagate 160Gb Ulta ATA/100 drive (st3160023a) i just picked up at Best Buy last night ($40 after...

Maxtor Hard Drive Failures
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 7 Comments

Having had crashes in the past, I was happy to see a site go up taking a survey of Maxtor hard drive failures. They will contact you with the final results if you provide contact info. It might be...

DELL 130T/ STK 9730 - need FSC.TXT
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 1 Comments

Trying to get an old tape library running. It's a Dell 130T which is actually a STK 9730 Timberwolf under the hood. It displays error codes called "FSC's". The manuals don't give the meanings of the...

Writer THOUGHT he had hurricane-proofed his fiction
Posted on November 2nd, 2005 | 2 Comments

For all the talk and obsession about backups around here, this is an object lesson that you need to KEEP YOUR BACKUPS OFFSITE. Words Can't Describe What Some Writers In New Orleans Lost Literary...

Recommended HD brand?
Posted on November 1st, 2005 | 18 Comments

I have to replace my failing 4-year old 60 GB MAXTOR 6L060J3 hard drive, and would like to try a brand other than Maxtor this time. I've seen good reports of Barracuda for example, but would...

SATA Hot Swappable
Posted on November 1st, 2005 | 2 Comments

Is SATA drives hot swappable? I got a drive that I installed into an external SATA enclosure that I made myself. It uses a standard SATA cable to a SATA PCI board with both internal and external...

New Computer Group
Posted on November 1st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Im new to this group ! Just set up a new forum on my website - please check it out http://www.whiterabbitsolutions.co.uk/forum/default.asp There are some interesting articles on there and I would...