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Well I low-level formatted the drive and now the drop-off occurs 18GB into it. I think I'll flick pass this to WD support and see how good they are. Would this qualify as an RMA?

Is writing zeroes to the drive the same? How would you LLF a drive these days?

Thanks Mark. LLF time...

O.K. Tried the drive on a Promise Ultra-100 controller with latest BIOS and drivers and got the same graph. Tried a different cable and teh drive seemed to go and extra 2 GB before the catastrophic drop, but is other wise the same graph. I have benched a 400JB and a D740X on the exact same...

Yep, and it's been that long since I saw it :) I've tried the latest VIA 4in1 (4.43) The Windows 2000 SP3 default driver and run the WD diagnostics over the drive - no faults and same result. The South Bridge is a VIA 8223 Next up is a promise and then I'll try it on my EPoX 8K7A+ (VIA 686B)...

Yep, I get the same graph second time around...

I got this late last night my time. I'm just about to kick off another run. None of the other bench's run show any evidence of such a transfer rate drop.

Hi all, Ive been running a few tests on a few different drives for an upcoming article, and I got this sequential read map from a WD 300BB Can anybody explain it to me? I've never seen anything like it.[/img]

Funnily enough, the street up from mine is called Annand Place... Guess fate has it in for me :) "Push the button Max!" (no, not that Fate! - Professor) "Let's see the Great leslie try that one!"

Actually my name is William (bill). LiamC was my old DJ nick... Was posting over at Ace's and JC's with it and it just sort of stuck...

Yep, stupid rulz. And that is why you now only get one year warranteee you dumkopf! Thanks.

Thanks Tea. Is that the DFT utility or another one?

Hi all, can anybody tell me what software I can use to enable/disable AM on Maxtor drives? And what is write caching? Thanks.

Slightly different fan request. What would you recommend for top end Athlon that doesn't have a 7000rpm fan and doesn't bolt on? If you know that it is available in Aus that'd be a bonus. I'm thinking Thermaltake 7+ or 9....

UV - that's simple. The person who let the 75GXP's out the door :) Ditto the same person who let Fujitsu's little numbers proliferate. Doesn't this fill anyone with dread? Fujitsu has bought IBM's Deathstar business, and F's recent past with denying anything wrong with one series of hard...

T, you've taken a liking to the old ultraviolence then? Or you really hate Deathstars? :)

I could be wrong but I was always under the impression that SVCHOST was just a helper app for applications that want to run as a service on your computer. Most applications run in the user space with user priviledges. Anything running as a service has top priveledges. At the moment with a...

O.K. What I'm trying to do is optimise disk speed under Windows 2000 Professional I'm using Wbench 99 to "measure" any improvements. With the 2MB cache drives, I could get similar scores to SR, even though it was a different platform. With the 8MB cache drives, I can't get close, and in...

Digging around in the Linux drivers for a Lexmark 7000 ColorJet, there is mention of the need for up to 700~770MB of temporary swap space for very large photo files when printing in 1200x1200 dpi mode. Most cheap inkjets get the host CPU to do all the rasterisation before passing the data to...

Time, the cable spec is IEEE 1284a I think (can't remember off-hand). Another thing is, I've never had much luck with combined mode (ECP/EPP). You may want to try just ECP or just EPP. 0.05

Time, what LPT settings do you have? It makes a big difference. Example 100MB LPT Zip drive LPT - normal/SPT/uni-directional setting. Copy 90MB took nearly 5 hours This is the sloest setting. Comms is one-way and usually in nibbles (1/2 bytes) Bi-drectional - not much better but at least...

Guessing, Enterprise Storage Group Personal Storage Group

Tea, your post reminded me of... Robert Heinlein. He has been called a fascist, right-wing blah, blah, blah, (see the glorification of the military in Starship Troopers), but those who say that should read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Tannin sounds (from your post :) ) like Mr. Heinlein's...

Clocker, yeah, never got into anime in a big way and then I realised (not that long ago) what Kimba (and Marine Boy, Prince Planet etc.) was... :)

I've been following the banter about ECS through several threads now, and while I can't comment (I've never used one, and I'm not a reseller), I did come across this post over on Ace's from Ace's main writer - Johan De Gelas - http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=80042185 - not complimentary....

Linux fonts. Just noticed this over on La Reg - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html

Bugger! I would have though that EL would have Lycoris. I have a set of images I downloaded about three months ago, so drop me email on where to send them and I'll burn you copies and send them to you. Should be good for eval purposes and then you can decide if you really want to offer it/use...

I have been playing with RH 7.3 a lot in the last few weeks and it works OK but SAMBA is giving me fits. However it doesn't apply to your situation because I want to share a FAT32 drive with validated users only. As far as most Linux distro's (that I've used) go, the interface is clunky...

US Keyboard mapping -> é = ALT+0233 on numeric keypad ie, hold down ALT key, and type 0233 on the numeric keypad, vòilá "é" Install character map, it is your friend for typing accented letters in most fonts

Tannin, über - over, above, top :)

über geek!

I have three running and just today realised that I have enough parts for a fourth (sans monitor), does this count? My box: T'bred 1900+ (unlocked) sample (currently 2200+ on 300MHz FSB), EPoX 8KHA+ (courtesy Tannin), 512MB Crucial DDR, TripleXXX GeForce 4 4200, WD 1000-SE My wifes box...

Here is a new twist on credit card scams I think (new to me anyway). I was wary after talking just recently with a friend who is in business (I'm not BTW) who got burnt by people in Indonesia This email just arrived in my inbox: From: noel@feninlambert.com | This is Spam | Add to Address Book...

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of response, I just had a break from bloody PC's! here's my smb.conf. [global] workgroup = HOMENET password level = 1 netbios name = server null passwords = yes encrypt passwords = yes [public] browseable = yes path = /home/public ; valid users = +usergroup...

I hope you are right and I am wrong

SteveC, there is no mention of "Claw" anywhere in that article. In the AMD conference call, it was specifically stated that "Claw" would not be out until 2H '03. In the same CC, AMD stated that they would ship Opteron in Q1 2003.

AMD could be being clever with the use of "hammer". Opteron is a hammer chip and is slated for Q1 2003 shipment. But this is a server chip, using 8~12 layer mobo's, dual channel DDR, and a different socket -> Mega$$$. Whilst it qualifies, I don't think this will the Hammer Athlon chip we are...

OK, here are the symptoms: Have all of my data on a FAT32 disk (one partition). This is mounted (RW) in a folder under /mnt. When I access the disk from the Linux (RH 7.3) box as root - I can read and write to the folder. However, when I share the folder under SAMBA, Anyone else on the...

time, I hear the ACCC wants to talk to you :D What's the 75GXP tip too BTW?

And that's about all Coopers is good for... :D

But when time? When with the IBM's be available in Aus?

I'll second that!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5770 Maybe I'm getting cynical (12~14 hour days will do that to you), but it seems that MS are selling an insecure product and will then charge you for the tools/software to secure it! A license to print money...

I've been using Eudora for about a year now. Free if you don't mind an add window. You can specify (easily) the location for your mail files (makes backups a lot easier) Gotcha's - you need to disable email (POP3) scanning from most AV vendors as you will never get any email. This isn't an...

Thanks guys. I wonder if the public know what they are getting with these products? They'll probably just see the product & price and go "good deal"...

Saw this new product in an online retailer in Aus. Harddrives from a mob called MDT. Anybody know who makes them? http://www.gamedude.com.au/hd.html

Strange that I should see this twice in one day http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=80037593 Is somebody trying to buy up cyber space?

Yep, but I spoke too soon. I can't log into the Linux box from a Windows 98SE machine now - and I've tried the "EnablePlainTextPassword" REG hack, and without it. :( The other problem is with the connection dropping after an idle time. I'll do more investigating...

I don't know timwhit. I have two9 drives installed. One is a a 15GB with 5 or so partitions so I can install any OS I want, and only OS's live on this drive. The other is strictly for data and proggy's so playing with a new OS is easy.

I too believe that it was formerly Redmond Linux. I downloaded it a while back and installed it about a month ago. It is the easiest installer I have ever worked with. It does look a lot like XP nad even my wife (graphic artist) commented on how nice it loooked. Everything worked out of the...