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All drives vibrate, just like all fan's. The fact that you have a loud medium frequency rumble, simply means that your case has a resonance frequency that is a multiple of a high frequency vibration like a fan or a HD in your computer. You can not identify the cause by touch, because it is not...

The BEST is definately 3ware. I've had alot of experiance with promise and I assure you they have their share of problems. However, for cost-effectiveness and reasonable reliability Promise is a good choice. If you start doing unusual stuff with your promise card then they start becoming...

The single best topping for a Pizza is "Extra Cheese"

I don't know that I've ever had to buy a Power-strip: Just visit the mini-seminars put on by APC/best/etc and with each you'll get a free one.

I still have five in continious operation and not one has even once hiccuped. I expect that all will have a long and useful life untill old-age retirement strikes. I even begin to doubt the rumors of many a premature death for the series. I must be a statistical abberation.

There was a W2k reporting bug related to Ultra-66/100. Controllers that used those ATA modes (Before SP1) reported PIO mode but ran in ultra-33 mode. That bug was fixed in SP1 and was never a problem in XP

Tannin, Yes you are correct, but that has been a very recent decision by MS and the survey that counted the problems is a year-long count. Thus MS's new policy has not effected the survey signifigently. I would argue that swapping of places is caused by two things. The first is a year-long...

There is one qualification for the matched drive requirement that was not mentioned. WD has several drive models that have two different platter densities. For example the WD1200 series can be had with 40GB platters or with 60GB platters. You really should get a drive with the same platter...

No there is a performance issue and a stability issue too.. Yes you lose any surplus space. In addition, the raid-1 array can only run as fast as the slowest drive; When writing to the array both drives must report a success before going on to the next write. There is also a stability issue...

Takes more than thermal paste to keep me happy and I'm a mere P5-133

Your friend could have unstable power (Surge protector) - Likely. Check to see if there are other things on the same circuit like a refrigerator/freezer/Washer/Dryer/ect. Check the location that the machine was previously stored (perhaps it was against a wall preventing air-flow and causing...

I don't disagree that there is a need for more storage. I merely have an issue concerning the limit to what can be used by most people. 144 Petabyte excedes what people can deal with in normal circumstances and that will continue because while technology changes, people don't. Even with...

Sorry folks, I just don't see the need for this amount of data in my lifetime: Especially on a single drive. To fill this drive would take 790 years of continous data transfer at T3 speeds (5.79MB/s). With no need, there won't be a market and it will never happen.

Don't know what the question was, but you did remind me of the solution - SpinRite. To my knowledge it still optimizes interleaves/LLF's. The problem with partitioning and formatting is that what is needed is to fix the Low level (or intermediate level for those that believe low level involves...

remaped sectors cause a blip - not a long-term drop in STR

I don't disagree. However, at least my explanations concerning LLF match the symptoms. I didn't see anyone else producing possible causes except the two platters of different densities.

yes, 7 acres is better served with a riding mower. I personally believe that the breaking point is about 1 acre. I'm actually surprised that you can do seven acre's in one day with a push mower. I actually have almost exactly an acre and I find it much better to do that over two days with my...

Since there are no errors or problems with other drives and controllers, the only explanation(s) that I can think of would be specific to the drive itself. Specificly LLF, firmware or hardware. If you have two platters with different densities then that should show up in drive capacity: It...

I'm sorry but there is something wrong here. There is no way that a parallel port could cause such a slowdown. A printer is mechanical and and both USB and parallel cables are electronic. There is no way that even a slow parallel cable will cause a large scale slowdown of your printer unless...

Notebooks for a community college is peculiar to me. Who's going to use them? If students, then you've created an inventory problem. They are going to have to be able to check them out from somewhere because without a specific method of inventory controll they will simply get stolen/lost...

Sorry, The mint has not changed the amount of copper. What you are seeing is an oxidation process. All pennies eventually turn dark brown, but there are some intermediate colors that can occur. My favorite are red pennies. One see's red in old copper pennies that have been stored such that...

If you think about it port forwarding is to a static address. However, DHCP is dynamic can give a machine a different IP-address. Thus, combining them is possible but problamatic because if DHCP gives a machine a different IP-address then the port forwarding will send the data to the wrong...

First, it is quite possible that smoothwall has VPN builtin and that it is simply a question of configuring it (I don't know, not having actually played with smoothwall). For a relatively modest price you can replace the smoothwall machines with something like Linksys's VPN cable modem routers...

This thread certainly has gone a long way from Iraq and war. I actually considered trying to create a limerick too: But I know better - that is not in my skill set.

As little as I like what happened, I feel obligated to be the devil's advocate here because the story is one-sided and the reactions have all been one-sided. Please note, I have great sympathy for the dog owner and her pain. I have had a dog as a pet ever since I can remember. I’ve even had...

At the price point you are talking about, it is hard to compensate for 50% increase in cost from the HP to the Cannon. Both are basic disposable printers, where you buy another printer instead of buying replacement cartridges. As long as both will survive through one set of cartridges, both...

Don't knock'um: You'll be in a similar position too. During their day, they were for the most part top-of-the-line, quality stuff. The boards are mearly a bit past their prime and can no longer maintain their price premimum over the competition in an ever changing world. Unfortunately for...

There is a lot of good to having multiple paging files (one per disk - Not per partition). NT/W2K/XP all will use the first available drive for their paging activities. Thus if the computer is busy loading a program (and that is why it is paging ram out) then it will use the other for its...

I'm cleaning out my office and have the following ISA (and one VESA) boards that I can't forsee ever using. Anyone want them (You pay shipping)? Anything not claimed within a week will be thrown away. Tall tree JRam-3 Parallel LIM EMS With 1 meg ram, Manuel and DOS drivers Multi-Tech...

Thank you for pointing that thread out. I don't normally goto SR anymore and I would not have wanted to miss that article. It is very thought provoking.

That is a different question than I was answering. I was answering how to keep the pagefile from migrating once you got it to the front of the disk. To get it to the front requires a complete reinstall of everything from a blank partition or a defragmenter that will move stuff out of the way...

Surely you know that you need to get the pagefile at the front of the disk before you make it unmoveable. After it has been moved, making it unmovable will simply keep it where is was at. The same goes for setting the page file to a fixed size. None of those solutions move the page file back...

I understand we are a focal point. I understand that the Terrorists may be equiping themselves with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and are likely to target Washington or NY or LA. none of that matters. One does not attack on a country on suspision alone. If we can, then the bad...

If I remember correctly, weith speed disk, you can create a list of exceptions files/extenstions that speed disk won't touch. Since my previous solution didn't work, try telling speed disk not to touch the page file rather than telling it to put it first.

Even with lots of links to terrorist organizations it does not rise to the level that a threat of invasion is acceptable. Those terrorists would have to have done an equivilent of a 9/11 and that is not the case. one can't execute people because of suspison that something might happen...

Set the page file to the start of the disk, make sure it is defragmented, and that the size doesn't change (min=max size) and then it won't migrate even upon defragmentation.

The problem with the theory that it is all a bluff to force weapons inspections is with the basic problem of expectations. Applying this type of threat to one nation creates the expectation from others that if it can happen once, then It will happen again. Countries that are in our dis-favor...

Tannin again gives good advise here. good politics. I think that giving multiple options with benefits/risks to those higher-up and then force them to decide is an excelent solution to your problem Merc. By suppling you with a untenable budget and total responsibility, they have made you...

I got a bunch of free stuff last time. This time, they apear to be missing my entire state and the nearest would be seattle (a minimum of a 4 hour one-way trip) and it would not be worth it to me to attend that. Maybe they will add more locations later.

I normally have 4 machines P3-500 as a domain controller, file server P2-266 - client/workstation dual athlon -1900MP's as a client/workstation P3-500 as a HW/SW test machine

Question: What do they all that place in the basement of the White House where they show movies. Answer: And I thought this thread was dead.

No offense taken. Even I am afraid of my sense of humor. Guess who voted with you.

I'm sorry but as my view on this is that Bush is dead wrong in going to war with Iraq. I understand that he is scared of the potential of Iraq supplying weapons of mass destruction that will be used on us. I understand that he feels we left the job half-done last time. However, it is my...

When I read Dickens, I liked him alot. I found I could imerse myself in the characters and settings. Unfortunately, I don't remember much of the details anymore. I went through a phase where I would read the complete works of one author all at one time. Dickin's, Sir Aurther Conan Doyle...

I didn't know that HP was using water-soluable ink. My guess would have been to apply the standard non-H2O solvents of rubbing alcohol, terpentine, or finger-nail polish remover with a q-tip and then apply the vacume.

If you don't like Dickens then you won't like my favorite classic author - Hugo.

I just looked at the database comparing the WD1200JB with the WD2000JB and I don't understand the results. Specificly the 2000 is 1.3ms slower in its access speed. However, the only signifigent performance drawbacks are with the web content tests. When I analyze the drive data it indicates...

I wish they had tried more than one USB 2.0 product: One can't tell if it is the USB 2.0 protocol or the specific Adtronics USB 2.0 <-> ATA 100 converter. I am surprised, I expected the USB 2.0 to be slightly faster than 1394 firewire (Not enough to matter) but it wasn't even close. My...

Same product with modem for $30.00 more

MS is not using open-source because it is open-source. The last thing MS wants to do is open up it's source code. Further, modifying the open-source code to fit Window's API would not be much easier than writing from scratch (Linux and Windows do not meet eye-to-eye). Thus, they need to write...