I have some questions about my Verbatim 1 GB Jump/Flash drive I am
running windows 98SE
When I fill the flash drive up and then trash stuff does it open up
space on the drive? Are these type devices more picky about non

I'm looking for a portable RAID 1 device.
Ideally something that uses 2.5" disks so its small and light.
Thanks for any info.
Ian

We have a broken-down Netvista 6643-13D in our office. We could not find
anyone who could repair it. So we are thinking of throwing it away. But
before we do so we have to take out the hard disk because it contains
confidential data.

Seems like a possible waste of taxpayer dollars, but the US Department
of Interior just pulled the plug on $20M plus of brand new storage
equipment and blade servers. You can read the press release here:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/egenera/blade-servers/prweb550135.htm

What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994?
I mentioned the Gear6 solid state storage device and somebody said
they were using comparable equipment back in 1994, an unspecified
model of "Network Appliance", by which I take it they mean the

When the Windows 2000/XP USB 128 GB problem is present, sector
268435455 cannot be addressed.
It happens when an LBA 28-bit command is sent to the disk, and the
disk only supports LBA 48-bit commands for addressing that sector.

Can an external drive be used to backup a PC first, then transfer that
data to a MAC (with the Mac being the end O/S on which the drive will
be used from there on out)?
I'm wondering if it is configured for use on a PC, then it may in turn

I bought a Tivo with 40GB hard drive and want to use it in a PC.
It's a Western Digital WD400LB-55DNA0
I can fdisk/format it.  I can read/write it.  It just won't boot.
BIOS gets to the point "verifying DMI pool data" and hangs.

Great Deal on a Hardrive
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How do external SATA enclosures get the power and data out the rear of the PC?
Do they have short pigtail cables or to they have connectors on the bracket?
GOt a brand recommendation?

I've bought a Connectland "carte PCI RAID ATA 133 0703014" dual
IDE controller (Silicon Image 0680, PCI 1095:0680 rev 02).
Unfortunately it conflicts with the Silicon Image 3114 on the
motherboard (PCI 1095:3114 rev 02).

I tried to connect a Maxtor Ultra EIDE ATA/133 120GB hard drive to my
old Asus P2B mobo. During boot, bios message says "Detecting HDD" but
it never goes beyond the screen. I tried as Master and Slave, but same
message (different line).

What would U recommend to buy for making backups of large amount of data
- like 60-100 gb under windows 2k3 ;)
what kind of tape device and software for it (or maybe batch and vb
scripting is enough)

Does first-generation SATA hot-plug without killing the mobo, the
disk, or both?
I've got a PC with an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe mobo with SATA on it.  It's on
the bench and I have several SATA disks I want to run disk fitness

I've been looking for an inexpensive networked storage solution using 4
500 GB SATA hard disks in a 4 bay enclosure that supports raid-5, giving
me 1.5 TB of storage.
I've perused the following possibilities: