I've recently come into possession of some Fibre Channel 40 pin drives
(ST3146807FC).  These are FC-AL, unfortunately I misinterpreted the
specs on a controller I was looking at before I snagged the drives.
Any suggestions as to what sort of host controllers I might look at

I have been looking everywhere for reasonably cheap (cost wise) esata/
usb, 4bay, RAID 1 storage solutions and while there are some
undisputedly top notch options out there they seem to start at $500 on
up and none seem to support 2tb internal drives.

Does anyone have a copy of the SMD-E Interface Specification, which is
CDC/Imprimis/Seagate document 64712402?  The spec for the earlier SMD
interface is on Bitsavers, but it doesn't look like the SMD-E spec is there.
Thanks!

Need something that will image a partition so it can be restored when
"user" has give it a traumatic 12 months
so not a drive cloner really
any software you can recommend will be appreciated

Hi...I'm trying to setup on XP Home an LG Electronics SATA GH22NS30
DVD-writer on an older Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard (ICH4 core) with a
Silicon Image Si3112 SATA controller. It 'should' work but something
is wrong.

Without taking pc lid off - is there a software way
to indicate if sata or ide ?
maybe a smart indicator function ?
its so i can help someone find out which theres is and

Why don't computers companies make and sell platters individually in
stores?
CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are sold like that. So why not make HDDs with push-
open slots like with CDs?

I wonder why a two-core CPU with lets say 2 * 1.7 Mhz is theoretically faster
than a single core with 3.4 MHz. I am NOT talking about additional features like
Pipeling and Hyperthreading but the core fact that the power is split over two cores.
Assume the following situation: A ...

We are running into problems with our QLogic HBA API libraries.  We get the
following error when trying to exercise it:
 "HBA_STATUS_ERROR_MORE_DATA"
The QLogic API guide says this is returned when the allocated buffer is

I'm running XP Pro on an ASUS A8N-SLI with AMD X2 4200.
Every weekend I do a full backup.
For speed, I create the first backup to an internal Samsung 1TB F1 drive -
one of the current fastest drives.

I have set up a RAID5 with 4 x 1TB disks and a SiL3132r5 controller.
It works well as a logical 2.9TB NTFS drive using Vista Business.
I am trying to read sectors to their own and have hit a problem.
I open the drive either as Drive G  \\.\G:  or \\.\Phys2.  Either way

Already running XP on it but what are my best Partition options, I was
thinking of 4 equal partitions, if not how big should the XP partition be..?
Plus what program that can auto select the correct partition size, I think I
used PQ Magic in the past and a Black HD  but that is old ...

i am looking for a drive tray for the ibm intellistation m pro (model 6218).
i cannot find a part number for this. can anybody tell me what it is and/or
where to get one?
thanks.

On this PC (Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz) I have 2
identical Samsung HD753LJ 750 GB hard drives. The spec at
http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/internal-hard-drives/samsung-hd753lj/
says:

Whenever I get a new laptop, I sell my old laptop (sans the hard
drive, which I keep in storage) on eBay.  I now have three 2.5" hard
drives just sitting around and to consolidate space, I've stacked them
on top of each other.  Problem is, when doing this, I can feel the