I purchased 4x 250 GB deskstars (sataII) ,  hoping to put them in RAID 5
and I had a few questions:
I have an old K62 550 with a decent Inwin ATX case.  I'm contemplating
purchasing the 4 port PCI SATA II controller from Promise and sticking

Anyone know why the SATA/150 PCI card that came with a Maxtor SATA
drive won't recognize my SATA tape drive?
Reading the manual and from what I have googled it seems maybe the
card only supports hard disk drives. Is this really a limitation of

I recently repartitioned my hard disk with PartitionMagic 8.0, which I
have not used before.  Among other changes, I created a new partition
by copying my system (drive C) partition, which contains Windows XP.
I hid the copy, intending it to be a backup in case I ever made a

How can I display which hard drives on my XP PC have powered down?
I have several hard drives (sometimes connected via a PCI adapter
board).  
When I use the PC after a long period of inactivity then some hard

I have a Western Digital WD2000JB-00GVA0. The value for the Spin Up Time
attribute is 89. I have two additional WD2000JB drives and there attribute
values are 131 and 135. It appears the "threshold" value is 21. I'm guessing
the drive with the 89 is showing it's age--about 4 ...

I'm in need for (budget) storage at home.  After doing a little
research i decided to build my own NAS server.
I've got an "old" AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with one GB of ram, so that will
be more than sufficient i guess.

What is your experience with this type of adatper? Does it work for
you? I've purchased twice but can't get them to work properly with
Windows XP and 2000 on 2 different PCs.
I set my IDE drive as master, connected to USB port, and turned the

I just built this AMD box...
MSI K8N Neo4-F Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB Crucial Ram

I'm wondering if there will be severe signal integrity issues if I use
a 2mm pitch 2x22 socket and header combination to connect 2 PCBs
together, assuming I still adhere to the impedance of the ATA signals
on the PCB and keeping the trace lengths within ATA specs? In total

I was working on my Compaq desktop, trying to restore the partition table on
a laptop HDD.  I didn't interfere with the jumpering, (I jumpered the laptop
drive as a Primary IDE on the Secondary IDE chain).
We were using an amazingly useful utility called FindPart and did manage to ...

Hi guys I have a bit of a problem I have a 300 gig harddrive. It has a
288 gig partiton that has 158 gigs free. I was wondering if there was a
way to partition some of that free space into another partition without
formating or losing my files.I have vista on the other 12 gigs of ...

The Hitachi DK23EA60 drive in my friends old Vaio laptop has died.
I've checked the spec and this is an ATA-5 interface.
Of course this model is no longer made so I wondered if it can be replaced
with an ATA-6 drive?

What low end fibre channel rackmount RAID arrays will give me a consistent
20 MB / second average read and write speed with a reasonable number of 15K
RPM SCSI drives in a RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration?
I've been using Compaq RA4x000 arrays as a cheap disk source for

I bought a new 320Gb WD HDD to replace my existing 80Gb drive.
This drive currently contains 2 partitions, respectively 24Gb and 56Gb
in size.  Both are FAT-32 partitions.
Of course, both will be larger on the new HDD, but I'd like to take

My motherboard is GA-6VXE+, and I have a BENQ 5232X CD-RW driver and a
generic COMBO. As we know, the motherboard supports UDMA33/66. And the
COMBO is Master, the CD-RW is Slave. When I boot the computer, the screen
shows that my COMBO is 'UDMA 49', I don't know what happened on ...