i'm trying to understand how caches work and am a little confussed. a 16-bit address with a 4-kilobit page has a maximum index of 2^4 and a total of 4096 offsets. 4096 is equal to 2^(16-4). but...

I have a Dell 745N storage device in which one of the raided volumes failed due to a hdd failure. The hdd was replaced and the raid rebuilt itself (hardware raid), but some smart guy went into the...

I've got Windows XP seeing my new SATA drive and I have Ghosted the old IDE C: drive to the SATA drive, but I can't work out how to make the SATA drive the boot drive for XP. I have an Asus A8V...

"Ann Onimus" <Ann@Onimus.net> wrote in message news:kke1m1pd766d913oodpoanh176ekct9gjr@news.Onimus.net... wrong group woman. now be gone!

I have a samsung x30 laptop that orginally came with a 60GB hard drive. i have bought a bigger 120GB toshiba hard drive. Basically i used Norton Ghost's 'copy drive' feature to copy...

I have a home network with 4 computers, 3 desktops and one laptop, as well as two ReplayTVs. The main computer is mine; I have an Asus p4pe mb with two SATA drives connected to the onboard...

I was trying to set up Linux on a disk with an unformatted partition intended for Linux. In one of the steps I accidentally chose Autopartition/New on a new disk. Without asking for confirmation...

Hi all, I know there have been lots of discussions related to backing up tapes at low data rates, and the effects of shoeshining etc, however we have a specific issue with the Tandberg (aka Quantum)...

Yesterday I had less than 1 GB free on my laptop hard drive (with 4 GB of stuff in the Recycle Bin). The laptop became unresponsive while running some programs, and I had to switch it off and back on...

Yesterday I came to the machine, which is always on, but when idle, cuts off the monitor, and nothing would happen (nothing would display) when I used the mouse or keyboard. The first two attempted...

I have a home LAN with about 20 GB online. As I get more into digital photography and possibly even videos, I expect that amount of storage can grow quite a lot in the next few years. My current...

I'm thinking about purchasing a higher RPM hard drive, but there ar two issues I'm considering 1.) Does a higher RPM make a noticeable difference in startin programs and running the OS? (most of my...

when I am executing SET MAX ADDRESS(0xF9) of ATA command, it is Aborting under windows (win 2000). I have read t13.org and other docs...Based on this , I observed the following are the causes for...

These drives are getting so cheap I would like to use them instead of buying a DLT tape system. Adding docking trays to each drive makes them cumbersome, however. Thought someone might have an easy...

Hi. I have an issue with being able to view the SMART status of drives included in a Windows 2003 fault-tolerant array. There are 4 - 200GB drives on a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller (non-RAID). ...

I replaced my laptop drive four months ago, just to increase speed (7200 RPM) and capacity. After I replaced the disk, I put the old one in an external case, tried it a bit, copied files to and...

Hi there So i hooked up 2 usb to ide converters (different manufacturers). Everything worked like a fine swiss watch. Today I wanted to add 2 more, so I bought 2 more that are made by the same...

Hi, My company is spending a whole bunch on money on a server just to host a very important download. It's not a single file. It's several files where users download whatever part they need using...

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Previously Ann Onimus <Ann@onimus.net> wrote: I think snake-oil. And expensive one at that. Some things claimed are definitely not possible in software. But I think they will find enough believers...