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Anyone see a problem with the setup below? I was reading through 3ware's documentation and I didn't see anything referencing booting from the 3ware card and that made me a little nervous. 3Ware 7500-8 2 80gig drives Mirrored for OS boot volume 4 160 Gig drives RAID5 for storage I have booted...

Holy thread hijack batman! Heh, now I am thinking about going with four Samsung Spinpoint SP1604N drives so I guess it doesn'y matter anyway. Everywhere I look people seem to like this drive for it's being quiet cool and reliable so I will probabbly give them a shot unless something changes my...

Thinking about getting some drives in near future and I want FDB for quietness. Looking at the WD2500's specifically and there are many types now. WD2500BB WD2500JB 8mb cache WD2500PB 8mb cache FDB "quiet drive" WD2500SB "RAID" edition. FDB, 8mb cache Are the JB's FDB? I thought some of them...

Unfortunately there is no guarantee that your set top player will read anything you burn unless it's one of those new ones that says it will read DVDr's. What I would do is get some different kinds of media and experiment. I can't remember where but there are some places that will sell a...

DVD Decrypter. See Doom9 http://www.doom9.org/ I am guessing the moderators won't tolerate more discussion on this topic here.

I have a question. Is there a plugin for firefox that enables the drop down text box for websites where you have previously visited and entered in something? For example in IE6 I can go to google and double click on the textbox and there is a drop down list of everything I have ever typed in...

I concur that hotmail's spam filter sucks (it sucks less than it used to). I had to take it all the way up to exclusive mode (only those in my address book make it to the inbox). See my first post. Hopefully fastmail stays small to escape the notice of big spammers.

I just want to pop back in and say that fastmail.us is pretty nice. No BS at all and works slick. Thanks again.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Going to investigate fastmail.

I have a hotmail account that I have had for years and except for the joke lists and some personal contact stuff it is unusable due to all the spam and the way a contact has to be setup already to allow it to go to the inbox. I will be moving very soon and I need a web based email that won't...

Update: Got it back yesterday, they replaced it with a new one of the same model. I was surprised that they didn't fix it, but I am not complaining. It works great.

I haven't looked at Matrox in a while. I think they have always been tops in image quality and reliability/drivers. If they would just put out something that has good 3D usable for gaming...

I have to second the annoyance with the drive letters. Nice to be able to read everything out there though.

Oh, woops I didn't know it was a laptop. I wouldn't do that either.

I felt a difference going from a WD1000JB to the WD740GD. I went to the 74 for the fractionally better seek times (why not). My friend has a 74 raptor too, and he had problems getting the motherboard to see it (K8USA known problem) and an RMA on the motherboard fixed that. I was expecting it to...

I don't know it just seems to be getting worse lately (bad week). We typically throw AddAware, Spybot, and Spy Sweeper at it and then CWSShredder if things percist. I have never had a problem with my home box other than some cookies and stuff, I just can't understand how some people's...

Pull the PC speaker connector off the motherboard. I only put that on for diagnostics.

When do you think spyware is going to get some recognition as being as destructive as some viruses? A lot of the viruses lately are fairly tame in what they do it seems, and I think it's probably on the same level as spyware in information gathering and stealing don't you think? What about the...

I sure wouldn't put my personal hardware in the field for my company. Is it your business or something?

Dear Customer, I checked the RMA# Txxxxx that you provided on your email, and your request is for model# HDD2182CZE01. For this particular model, we are currently experiencing part shortage. Our normal Turn-Around-Time for repair is 30 business days or first come first out. We would fulfill...

It's a single array 420Gig, 391Gig after format and currently 100Gig free.

Oh shoot, and the real question is how do I view the SMART data on these drives? Not possible?

To bad I can't edit polls or posts. I was going to add in the option for don't change anything, wait until something fails. I think it's funny when people slam on one particular manufacturer, they all mess up here and there. For me WD drives have been great, and between my desktop and this...

Would love to replace these with either 4 or 6 120Gb drives, don't want to spend the money though. Please treat the pole like you were spending your own money and all you wanted was reliable data storage. Speed isn't really a factor in this case. I have eight 60Gig WD drives in my server in...

For amusement I put the external antenna onto my truck and take a spin with net stumbler running. I get a couple that are locked down but the majority of them are not. I haven't ever tried to stop and use the connections or search for file shares, nothing stoping anyone though. I kind of like...

What I do in this situation is write myself a little web page with that link in it. Then open the page in IE and use the right click - save as thing.

Heh, I ran into the encrypted file system with one customer I was doing a backup with. Their computer completely died (caps on the motherboard) I did a little research and tinkered around with it and finally had to just put the drive in another computer and reactivate windows. I don't know what...

Thanks for the info buck. The drive is at toshiba now and they are saying a 10 to 30 day turnaround is normal. Geesh, I guess I should have gone for the advance exchange.

Yes, no real negatives for me: 1; they exchange the drive with another - me happy 2; they fix the issue with this one - me happy 3; they send it back to me as is - not as happy as I could be but i know the drive works fine. It passed spinrite after like 8 hours. Thanks for all the suggestions...

I tried the Ontrak disk manager and got no dice, said it didn't find that it was set on that drive. Also it couldn't find the drive's max size either but it blamed that on the fact that not all drives suport that feature. I RMA'd the drive with toshiba, will be interesting to see what happens.

Or anyone have an image of Ontrak I can borrow to fix this?

Buck, I suspect you are on to something with the disk manager idea. Is ontrak the only thing that will do that or can I undo it with some other utility? Drive Image, Ghost, Partition Magic, BootIt NG, I have all these and have wondered around with them and havn't seen anything that would help...

By the way that picture is after I did the zero writing. I let it run for four hours and it zeroed 75% of the drive. In the past I have only had to zero the first couple minutes to correct problems. I also read the SMART info using Dtemp and it says everything is in the green. Do I send the...

To give you an idea what I am dealing with you can see in this picture http://scottjal.ath.cx/ebay/drives.JPG The IC25N040 is an IBM laptop 40Gig drive <-- shown as disk 5 The MK4021GAS is suposed to be a 40Gig drive <-- shown as disk 1

Howell: There is no space left over after I create the 32gig partition. Cougtek: this is a laptop hard drive, I don't think I have seen one of those with 32gig limit jumpers. There is however settings for CHS printed on the drive to make it an 8Gig drive. I am using seagates tools to zero...

I asked fujitsu if they had a utility and they don't. They told me to use fdisk(I don't think they understood the question). Wonder if the WD disk will work, I have dozens of those here. Could you email me the quantum utility at scottjal(a)maine.rr.com? Ill check if they make it available on...

The issue is no matter what I do I can only get a maximum partition size of a little over 32Gig no matter if it's on the Oxford USB, the Abit KT7A, or the Intel D875PBZ. I tried repartitioning it on all three controllers and they all agree on this. The drive is clearly labled as 40Gig and I know...

Here is a strange one. I have a Toshiba MK4021GAS that is a 40Gig drive. The BIOS reports it as a 38Gig drive and when formated it winds up at a little over 32Gig. This is a system pull from an unknown notebook and when I first took a look at the drive with partition magic 8.01 it said there...

I have a DRU510 and havn't run into this problem. Please list CPU motherboard and other IDE devices. Is the burner sharing a cable with something else that is in use? There is a utility on SONY's website that enables faster operation in reading disks for this drive too.. although that is not...

lol, did they all work?

Man this sucks I have a DRU510 that works fine, but my friend has a DRU500 that burns disks with little errors sometimes that shows up on my DVD player. Fortunately his drive failed the test app that sony has (write error), otherwise aparntly he would have as much chance as a fart in the wind. I...

Then: Enlight 7237 P4 2.4b ASUS P4S533 ATI Raedon 8500 512 PC2700 Corsair XMS Two WD1000JB's Lite-on 48x24x48 burner 52X ASUS CD reader Now: Antec Sonata P4 3.0c HT (thank you intel for your reseller deal, otherwise I never would have upgraded) Intel D875PBZ (sold the D865GBFL) ATI Raedon 9700...

I have had three ASUS P4S533's in several flavors (-x -nothing etc) and with their CPU fan control what they do is set the fan to maximum and then step it down. On a reboot the fan instantly goes to maximum once the board is reset and then starts stepping down again in a few seconds once the...

I will do some testing. Quick question though, does changing the frame size require a reboot or is it on the fly?

I am about to set up my first gigabit network and I have some questions about jumbo frames. This network is for large file transfers and I understand the performance from 100 to 1000 will scale better with jumbo frames. File server: 3Com 710024 (512k cache) Gigabit Server NIC Jumbo frame MTU...