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If the problem was executing chkdsk from boot, then the causes of chkdsk not being able to access the drive are much less common. There you are dealing with a bios setting that locks the drive; some other security application; or something like a root-kit that has modified the OS. The only...

The SCSI communication standard has a write only sense code that can be set via software per device or HW, commonly set via a jumper but can be firmware-wired into the device controller, but that is still not at the physical cable level.

I'm just going to guess here. Don't know, because I've never actually tried to test it, but I have a theory. The old HD has the primary partition with the MBR. The newer HD has an extended partition, but the OS was installed on it (quite possible). The problem is that you can only boot to...

That will work too

The site continues to run poorly when replying thereby creating duplicate posts because the poster doesn't believe it went through and trys again.

Easier, would be to simply right click on the drive icon, pick properties->tools-> check drive. Make sure you checkmark the appropiate tasks and run it. If there is something interfering, it will complain and offer to check the disk during the next boot process; Accept and restart the machine...

I don't see how it can occur. A SAS cable is basicly a set of transmit/receive serial cables. All the actual data is encoded inside SCSI commands to be intrepreted by the two controllers. It would be in the controllers/Drive/OS layers not the physical cable where such a command could be...

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Always nice to know you've got SP2, but which version (or a flavor) of Windows NT, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista? Chkdsk is very picky and basicly requires total control of the drive in question, else it will fail. If any other application or share uses the drive when you request the drive check...

An interesting drive. I wonder about price?

No, just my consistant mis-spelling ...

They really shoot themselves in the foot when signifigent price decreases are announanced months in advance: People hold off on their purchases and all buy them when its cheap. If they didn't announance, then some of them would buy at the higher price ...

It was down for me all day and when I did get on (just now), it was very slow to load ...

I have no problem with a carrot-stick rule. I was just showing that even at the time CAFE standards were created, there was a recognition that there was a need for multiple points that were addressed and that the CAFE standards were not the only method used to attempt to deal with the national...

Yes, they are different: Look at the specifications! Newegg is a 44pin IDE connector and the Ewiz is using a 50 pin IDE

Sorry, I have no inside info about when it will be offered.

Since it is a large (bootable size) and at a relatively reasonable price for a SSD, I thought that there might be people here interested in the following product: NewEgg has SAMSUNG 1.8" PATA 32GB Solid State Disk(SSD) Flash Disk Model MCAQE32G5APP for $553.99 shipped.

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I'm Sorry, but I disagree that C.A.F.E standards are dumb. Matter of fact, I think they are necessary to force the automobile industry to improve energy efficiency. They were created, in the seventies, at a time that the industry was not particularly forward-thinking or even particularly...

I thought so too, but Newegg has them in stock for $166.40 shipped, right now.

I don't see where his math adds up. In actuallity, you can extend it even longer:almost a year

Sorry, but I couldn't find one in any the FAHlog's on any of my machines. Since, if is failing in the same place, check to see if it isn't the exact same WU (Run, Clone, Gen) repeatedly being given to you.

I'd choose an external USB 2.0 rather than firewire. The reason is that almost all PC's have USB 2.0 now but only a minority actually have firewire and it is virtually non-existant on lower-end machines.

I've never before seen that capability in a NIC: I agree that is sweet and appears to do exactly what needs to be done to get rid of routers and multiple NIC's. For the rest of us, we are stuck doing it the painful way.

With Windows, each NIC can actually have multiple IP addresses but you only get one jumbo-frame setting per NIC so a single NIC won't work: You still need two NIC's on each machine (one for each network). At that point, you could theoretically get rid of "the" router: each machine is acting as...

No that is not what a vlan does, it will prevent communication to and from the different vlan's so that the non gigabit and the gigabit networks can not communicate to each other. You will still need to connect the two virtual networks via a router. A vlan creates seperate virtual lans on the...

If the data is off and safe, then junk the drive. Reliability and confidence is everthing and you don't have that any more.

Part of the purpose of removing the Video and the RAM is to verify not only those parts but also their sockets from the potential problem. The beep speaker should actually complain if they are not installed. Then when you install the item the Beep speaker complains about, it will move on to...

If it supports jumbo frames, it will be cheap (almost regardless of its price)compared to alternative solutions. As a brand, I really don't like D-Link though: but if it's the only choice ...

Do you actualy have a beep speaker installed? The first thing one does upon total failure is to take apart everything specificly making sure that there was no unintended short like a loose screw or an unused, misplaced stay. Reinstall the MB, PS, CPU/Fan, and beep speaker. Nothing else should...

I pulled my smoothwall router because I ran into two problems. One was a specific IIS challange-response box that wouldn't get through the smoothwall and I could not see why. I needed to be able to logon and it wouldn't get through (other challange-response sites worked fine: It was specific...

A Jumbo-frame Vlan switch would eliminate the need to physically seperate the networks: But you would still need the bridging router to communicate between the two logical networks. If you can get all your equipment Jumbo-frame compatible, then you don't need to seperate anything at all: The...

On my own personal network. I have two pods of 4 computers each attached to gigabit switches. The two pods communicate to each other, and the internet router wirelessly using 802.11g access points. My main printer is an IP printer attached to the router. I have occasionaly considered doing...

First, WINS is a broadcast protocol that won't cross a network boundry. If you want to use WINS, then put all your data on the server and share from that point. You won't be able to browse between the PC's and the notebooks (across the network boundry), but everything will be able to see the...

Also, all your PC's and notebooks need to be able to join the domain: No XP Home, unless you share everything off the server (including the printer) so that no one needs to cross the network boundry to file share. If everything belongs to the domain, then you can cross the network boundry for...

Either take one of your PC's or get another one. On that PC, Put on Windows Server or Linux and use two network cards. On the first Gigabit network card, enable jumbo frames and connect it to the Gigabit switch; Enable Jumbo frames for all the other PC's that are attached to it. On the...

If not all the devices on a network can deal with jumbo frames and you activave jumbo frames then what will happen will be lost frames and lots of requests for re-transmittal. The net result will be time-outs and very low performance.

What a layer-3 switch does is read IP addresses, instead of the MAC address, and use that data to decide what port to send the data. A layer 3-4 switch will sometimes do a primitave QOS and prioritize the packets (i.e. reorder them in a queue) before sending them on their way. A layer 4-7...

It would be nice, but extremely unrealistic for your ISP to prioritize its traffic according to your needs. So your first goal is to to eliminate the lag issues within your own network. As more internet carriers sell VOIP solutions, there will be of an effort on their part to ensure that they...

I know you can do it on Cisco routers by simply changing the MTU on the different interfaces. Other than that, I don't know of any. But then I haven't really researched it ...

people are not supposed to talk about the "dirty bits" or their "private parts" in public ...

A switches job has absolutely nothing to do with converting/breading up frames. What a switch does is to simply read an address; decide which port it needs to travel; and then send it on its way. It does not manipulate the frames in any way ... All devices within a network need to understand...

Not to me, the skill needed to artfully create quality food, when you limit the ingrediants to eliminate anything that tases good, is far higher than a normal chef that starts out with tasty ingrediants like a quality piece of beef...

Any reasonable thermal goo product should be enough: The practical differences between brands are not typically signifigent (1-2 degrees). Application technique is far more important.

Using two routers is not recommended, if you are doing any file-sharing within your home network. Most routers try very seriously to prevent file-sharing data from being transfered across the WAN port (in either direction) for security reasons. Even if you totally turn off the firewall and use...

BW stands for Bandwidth. The router is a choke-point for several reasons. first is that it accumulates data from several sources. Next, is that most home network traffic is traveling through 1000/100/10 Ethernet but most cable systems operate at even a slower speed (1-10 Megabit). The...

Is your router QOS savy? VOIP requires real-time access to the data stream. If there is other traffic and there is no QOS, then it is first-come first serve and that will cause problems with your telephone service. VOIP needs to be able to cut infront of the line ... For most networks, the...

Try Smartmontools. It's supposed to work with 3ware controllers ...