All,
I need some help on a problem I am faced with.
I have a large box of old 5.25 Floppies (a few hundred) from  when I
got my first IBM PC back in 1989-90. I have pulled a few out and

One of those not so simple questions;
I have 2 x 300gb as a Raid 1 array,Intel ICH7 controller, and while I
havn't lost any data the 6-7 rebuilds in the last 6 months are, to say
the least, painful.  A rebuild never finds any errors, and takes 5

I'm a Philips consumer but i'm now disappointed due to this:
First of all, i researched every part of your site and found my CD-RW
drive's firmware update at "http://www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/
cdrw.html" to update my drive's firmware from P1.3 to P1.5 as

E-Machines T2080, XP-Home. Drive went bad and my friend bought a
replacement Maxtor ATA 100 300 GB drive.
He used his system restore disk to reinstall the OS to the default
config. It uses Ghost. He now has a 32gb NTFS partition and his system

I have been using the Nimbus MYSAN software on my 2003 box.  I have set
up several partitions, and attached to them both, using the MS
Initiator.  I can only set up exclusive (Single Target to Single
Initiator).  I assume I could share the ISCSI Volume on my ISCSI

I'd like to play around with a small inexpensive SAN at home. Storage
capacity or performance is not a concern something like a 4 or 5 year
old EMC, HP or IBM box. Any suggestions?

I have big problem. I lost my partition table, however, I was able to
guess it by gpart application. Right now I am trying to write it to
HD, but it is not so easy. I am using fdisk, however, when I exit from
fdisk, all partition information is lost (yes, I exit by "w" not "q").

Does anyone know if there is a mount option for Linux clients that
will bypassing NFS caching and force direct IO?
Thanks.
~F

What is a reasonable transfer rate for a usb 2.0 external hard drive?
-Thx

While trying to make an image of an NTFS partition, the imaging
softwares (I tried with both "True Image" and "Ghost") reported that
errors on partition prevented the image to be completed.
For example, Acronis stated that it "Failed to read from the sector

Does anybody make an 80 GB hard disk with jumper that
limits it to 32 GB? (IDE)
I need to replace hard disk for a computer that can
only handle 32 GB.

I saw this link on another group:
http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/
The page contains this quote:
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Asus A8V. 2 weeks ago Windows locked up and upon reboot it couldn't find any
hard drives. I purchased a Promise SATA II 300 PCI Drive Controller and
installed it. When attempting to boot it says it cannot find the Promise
Controller BIOS. I'm stumped. What should I try next?

My Computer has 2 hard disks (Primary 40 GB) and (Slave 10 GB).
I had four partitions in the salve, but now all the partitions are
deleted automatically
and i have lost all my data. Drive is deducted and it shows 10GB as

I'm looking for an inexpensive external drive that I can use for automatic
backups and also to sync files from my desktop to laptop.  Several drives
seem to be able to do this from their ads, but I have XP on my desktop and
Vista on my laptop.  Does this complicate things?  Anyone ...