Hello to all. I'm sure this question had been asked a million times and I
am sorry to be repetitive, but the state of the art continually changes and
I want to be up to speed.
I am taking the HD out of my work-issue laptop and giving it to a

I just got an Intel 865PERL mobo which uses the 865PE / ICH5R chipset.  I'm
trying to decide between PATA or SATA hard drives.  Would SATA drives be any
less reliable? I plan to have two drives but in a non-RAID configuration.
I've heard rumors about data corruption issues with ...

transferring bbc micro adfs/dfs 5.25" disks to pc. and being able to read
them. I am familiar with using a beeb emulator but unsure of how to transfer
and read the data. instead of getting hold of a bbc micro.
is there a 5.25" disk drive available for the pc, and will it read ...

I have a WD1200JB drive that I accidentally fried when I rewired a
Molex connector the wrong way around (red and yellow wires were
swapped - 5v became 12v and vice versa).
Needless to say the drive died rather quickly and hasn't spun up

   It seems as though I have a hard-drive that has lost power ... I cannot hear it
spinning and cannot access the 3 volumes on it. I was wondering if anyone has had
experience with this type hard-drive failure and who (what company) would be a reliable
source for recovering the ...

I'm in the process of setting up some DB hosts and storage, and I'm
looking for some guidelines for setting up our redolog LUNs.
I have 2 approaches for this, and I'm unsure which one is best from a
performance standpoint:

The jumpers for the SCSI Fujitsu drives I have (MAT, MAS, MAP) are
smaller than usual (Maybe it is typical for SCSI).  The connectors I
have in my case and hard drive mounting kits for connecting to the LED
jumper(s) are made for jumpers that have slightly more spread in the

Hi,
I am pretty new in connecting Solaris servers to Clariion CX using
Emulex or any SAN for it matters.
I wonder if anyone can explain or guide me to docus on my queries

Any suggestions on the subject?
tnx
ann

I'm wondering to what extent popular NAS and SAN devices support the
Directory Change Notification feature of the CIFS/SMB protocol. I know that
anything running Windows does support it, and I think SAMBA doesn't, but am
curious about the other devices, e.g. NetApp, Adaptec, etc.

I ran this little prog called 'Rootkitrevealer' and it shows files
hidden from the Windows API. I noticed every partition has a 64mb
Logfile. What the hell does Microsoft hide in there?
You can get the prog from www.sysinternals.com if you don't have it

I'm considering getting an NEC 3520A DVD burner and a Samsung TS-H352A
DVD-ROM drive (also known as the Toshiba SD-M1912) . Both would be connected
to my mobo's secondary IDE channel. Is this a good pairing?
Also, would I be better off choosing the same brand for both burner and ...

Is it possible to somehow add more PCI slots?  Even temporarily?  Most motherboards now come with a max
of 5.  If you're using 2 extra monitors (PCI video cards with your AGP), a SCSI controller, a Firewire if
your mb or soundcard doesn't have it, a good soundcard, a hardware modem ...

I have backups of my harddrive.   I was messing with the registry and would
like to restore it before my edits.  What file(s) would I have to copy over
on to the harddrive to replace the registry?.
The Microsoft restore feature for some reason lost all its restore points

I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80GB harddrive which seems to have a
strange problem. The drive is FAT32 formated and worked fine until one
day i saw the error message "unable to write to drive"(the disk was
nearly 50% full) i ran M$ Scandisk and everything was okay but only for