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Try Seagate's NFDisc From their website: ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/seagate_utils/nfdisc12.exe The output of NFdisc is a little ... er ... cryptic. Have fun figuring it out!

One assumes that the apparent lack of interest this thread has generated is because no-one actually thinks it will make the slightest difference to anything. Certainly, I find it difficult to imagine that the actual working (i.e., non-PR) units of a company with Microsoft's long and...

Psst! Kristi. Don't tell Tannin The Callar' name. He will post it if you do! And on no account are you to mention his address!

Landing zone will be 1024, and doesn't actually matter if you get it wrong. Sectors ... mmmmm ... Hang on a tic, I'll ask Tannin. Yup. He says all MFM drives had 17 sectors per track. With a RLL controller, that jumps to one of two or three higher figures. 26 SPT was common, 35 less common...

Yes Coug. I have a few others contributing. Muitah is one of the Red Hill part-timers (and a very nice bloke - it's a shame he doesn't seem interested in joinging the forums). The Soup_Nazi is one of the team too. He and I go way back. And, of course, there is Tannin, who is my pet human. His...

That's funny Vlad. Where the hell did you get my customer database from? :)

Not my area, but I did sell a few Hercules ones a while back, and my customers were very happy with them. I forget the model now, and they are no doubt replaced by something else already, but they retailed for around AU$190 - i.e., maybe $90 in the US.

I think you have to learn to manage support expectations better, Mercutio. The thing about that question is, you can't answer it in a single sentence. Fact is, you only know one good computer person in your area, and that's the guy you see every morning in the mirror when you shave. So you...

Amen

Steve, just in case no-one said it already, those updates of yours are really good. It's great to be kept informed. Please don't stop! And well -spotted with Xtreme Systems. I've been running an eye over the lower-ranked teams every now and then, just to see if there was a threat coming up...

I have plenty of hard drives, but it does occur to me that a variation on this theme would be useful. A good many of my machines fold for just a few days, and are there for testing as much as any other reason, so it would be neat to have a CD image that I could boot off which would install an OS...

Yup. New hard drives are usually a safe bet. though there was the odd exception. In Seagates, the first RLL drives were a huge disaster, and their first PRML desktp drives were a minor one. Most people seem to think that their first fluid bearing model was dodgy also (the Medalist Pro 7200), but...

(Yup. Another one. I never tire of them.) You know the scenario: the little old lady died last night and she is standing at the Pearly Gates talking to St Peter. So far, so good. Suddenly there is a blood-curdling scream. "Oh Goodness", says the little old lady, quite alarmed, "what on earth...

I seem to be Tea at the moment. Oh well, so be it. I'd have bought a K6-3/300, Cliptin. On 10th August 1998 our list price for a P-II 333 and board was A$1030. That was a VIA chipset baby AT board - the cheapest way to get into a P-II. But if you wanted something more-or less future-proof in a...

Forgive my cross-post, but I see that you are in need of some education, Mercutio. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~camcroft/musklorikeet.htm http://www.cohsoft.com.au/nature/gallery/m/musklori.jpg http://www.birdworld.com.au/records/lorikeets/musklori.html The anti-matter birds came calling today...

Beautifull ironing, Tannin. :mrgrn: (Shutup, Tea, or I'll iron your ears flat.) (Ha! As if you could catch me, you old slob.)

Hmmm ... well, Tannin can be handy when I'm stuck on a tricky networking problem, but apart from that, yes, he's pretty useless. Not the most beautiful of humans either. And excuse me, Vlad. I had a slip of the brain. Must be all that time I've spent with humans lately. Picking up bad habits.

"basks" = "casks". :( (See my sig.)

A "rescue cat", JTR? It that sort of like a smaller version of one of those St Bernard dogs with little wooden basks of brandy round their necks that the Swiss use to rescue lost skiers? :wink:

Oh yes, Kava is sweet. She is also the only person I know who can eat bananas almost as fast as I can. She's be even faster than me, being so much bigger, but because of her trunk she can only pick up one at a time, where I can use both hands at once. (hic)

Hey, that's a really neat little program, Steve. Thanks! Going to be really handy at the office where I have several machines and not enough monitors for them all.

Has anyone had any of these units lately? Two things can happen if you get one: a: :) You get a P145_1L2Yunf workunit. It zips along pretty quickly and you assume that it's not worth many points - and quite rightly so: like a half-dozen other ones with similar names (P142_1LY2unf and...

I think it might have to do with the three extra machines I added these last couple of days, Cliptin, two XPs and a Duron 850. I'm going through the leftovery bits lying around the workshop, and seeing as they all need testing and I have an internet connection that works now, they might as well...

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=4407 Kudos.

http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe Or, if you want to write zeros to the entire drive, rather than just the first 128 sectors where the master boot record and the partition table are, use this one: http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/wipe.exe Syntax: "zap 0"...

Mine is an odd mixture, mostly quiet and rather grumpy at times, but every now and then he gets into a manic sort of phase and runs round like life is just a great big, friendly joke. I like him best when he is sort of half way in-between, but that doesn't happen often. He is very smart, and yet...

1 2146.3 1004 The_JoJo 2 1706.3 1058 Clocker 3 1472.3 587 Tea 4 1468.8 752 Cliptin 5 1410.5 790 handruin But not for long!

"How did I first stumble across the SR forum?" Huh? What a stupid question. I was born there.

1 2144.7 1003 The_JoJo 2 1700.3 1057 Clocker 3 1465.8 750 Cliptin 4 1465.7 582 Tea 5 1409.0 789 handruin Cliptin: you da man!

But it is a pretty powerful little machine just the same. And great that your housemate has joined us. (By the way, Sol, that little job you are doing for Tannin, the switch arrived this morning, so you can do it anytime you want.)

Speaking of holes and sockets, I just spent an interesting half hour going cross-eyed trying to straighten the pins on a Duron 850. Tiny damn things. It was a brand new one too. Damn motherboard bent it on me. Eventually I took another Duron and I couldn't get that one to fit either. Bent it...

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Driver for an 845G? Err, yup, it's available and I knew about it, but Intel always do OS/2 drivers. Well, nearly always. Unfortunately, while I appreciate their effort, I have always thought that Intel's graphics products were dreadful damn things. On the whole, given a choice between and Intel...

Ahhhh... Thanks, Bartender. Just the drop. Coug, you don't have a Promise ATA-133 controller in your system by any chance, do you? I gather there is a known problem with the Promise card and SP3.

I used Opera at 1280 res and didn't have to do anything. It just took up a fixed windows size (about 80% of my screen, so I guess it was 1024 x 768) and made me laugh quite a lot. When I get home, I'll see what happens with IE. Oh, no I won't. I don't have Flash.But how come it worked with...

VESA was a bitch. Even Tannin doesn't miss it.

Good point, Time. You know, I can't see any reason why not, except that the discussion board Vlad linked to is public. I see, however, that they are setting up a private add-on forum. This might indeed fit the bill.

From http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s636852.htm

New machines easier? Ha! Not even close. Seriously, new machines are much, much more difficult. In the old days, instead of wrestling with Plug and Play we used a system called Plug and Work. You had to know what an IRQ was and how to set it, but after that, you just plugged the card in and it...

I didn't read it. A contract is a binding agreement between two people who have reaced a mutual understanding as to terms and conditions. I neither read nor understood the masses of fine print that they, for some reason best known to themselves, attached to the box and hidden under the "I agree...

"Living well is the best revenge". I like that. You know, I'd seen that tag many times, of course, but never realised what it was really driving at. Now that I understand, it's perfect.

You are right, Vlad. It's appalling. I hope they all spend lots and lots of money on lawyers and don't get any back.

OK. I found a different update. It's cheesy but sort of cool, in its own weird way. It seems to need Flash. I don't like Flash. Visit it anyway. Hic! (What about the address, you fool?) Oh, yes. The address: http://www.worldstuffups.com/

One assumes that they think everyone is on cable, Mercutio. And trust them. And don't have bandwidth caps. (Hey - I've splashed out to buy myself 2.5GB a month for $75, but if I go over my limit I pay 11c per MB. So the first 2.5GB can cost me anywhere down to 3c per MB, but after that it is...

OK, I did a quick STFW and have discovered a little. It adds a couple of things to let you specify your default web browser, emailer, and so on - which seems useless, anyone reading this forum will have done this manually long since - and various security and stability things, plus one to watch...

OK, download fine, installed no problem. What's new? Is there a readme?

Good point, Clippy. Best idea is to take a wholesale approach and reset everything to the factory defaults. You can go over and over stuff, setting it individually, but it's just so easy to miss something. Hell, pull the battery out if in doubt. Can't do any harm.

Oops. I didn't make the main point clear: a stock XP 1800 doesn't need a fancy HSF. Sure, there are top class solutions available, different thermal pastes and so on, and for someone like Groltz they are a Good Thing. But just to run an XP 1800 at stock speed, any old HSF should work just fine...

Whooah there! The real solution is to find the cause of the problem. It's a stock standard XP 1800 at stock standard clock rates, and at a good, low case temperature. Something is wrong. The answer is not to buy a bigger heatsink, it is to work out which of Timwhit's components is the faulty...

Thanks, Splash! And you were nice enough to let me know just after I got the cable on. 20KB/sec sure beats 56k. :)