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His motherboard doesn't support UDMA-6! From the sounds of it, it's UDMA-2 (max transfer speed of 33MB/s). There are different levels of transfer speed over PATA, you know...
I know this very, very well. this is one of the big reasons I reccommended him to run his HDDs off of the PCI PATA controller and his opticals off of the onboard. This is the EXACT same situation my dual P3 server that is pictured is in, so I have a bit of an inside view of his situation.
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Why not build a mini ITX form factor computer, and put in some hard drives yourself? just an idea, like mashie did. Check it out, it's really worth it!
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do you mean you're using a hard drive that's over 127gb, but its only showing up as 127? (might be 139 i can't rememeber)
The limitation is indeed 137GB.
This is the very reason I said what I did in my first post...
To break the 137GB limit, google "48 bit addressing" or "137Gb limit"
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That is Si units which are pretty popular in many areas due to manufacturers wanting to make their device look faster or like it has more space.
1 GiB = 1,000MiB = 1,000,000KiB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes
1GB = 1,024MB = 1,048,576KB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes
Not labeling Si units as such is misleading and someone should enforce it, TBH.
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yes, i understand what you're saying, but if the drives are going through USB, they'll be recognized as external, and i'd even be able to unplug them if i wanted at any time. the big thing about going PATA is that its 33mb/s.
Where the hell did you hear that? it is 133MB/s (megabytes per second). Even the fastest HDDs cannot transfer data that fast off-platter.
Uhm, no. It is 60MB/s (60Megabytes per second, or 480Megabits per second) And that is per controller. Most controllers are (were last I looked into it) chained together and not in parallel, so that means 60MB/s total between every USB2 device you have. In addition to this, USB tends to not be able to perform at that rate and a more realistic speed is 40MB/s.even though i may go with linux for it, i don't want it to be that slow. if i get USB2.0 for it, i'll be rockin' out with 480mb/s.thats a significant jump. also, i want to reserve the PATA connectors on the motherboard for optical drives, not waste them on HDDs that may force me into an endless reboot cycle because they're all formatted NTFS except the ones that don't work etc.I already told you of the way to work around that, and I told you the ones on the motherboard need not be the ones the hard drive(s) is(are) hooked to.
The PATA cables are somehow going to be more bulk then USB cables, converters, power for the converters, and cable to the HDD from the converters?its not that i'm trying to make it complicated, its that i'm trying to completely resolve a few issues before they start. also, i dont want a PCI IDE/PATA controller because i don't want cables stretching all around the case. its a SUPER S2DGU, with 2 intel PII Xeon processors, they aren't the smallest processors to hit the face of the earth.i plan on having 3 optical drives, 1 SCSI drive and 2 PATA drives. 3 optical drives will max out the PATA connectors giving me room for one slave drive if i wanted. i'm not trying to bash anyone or say they're wrong, but for my usage, PATA isn't the best of ideas with this board for HDD's. i use Adobe Audition for music editing, luckily i have an 80GB PATA at the moment. my /temp folder is about 46GB, and thats reserved for adobe auditions editing. the larger the temp folder, the longer the program can go before crashing. i've run on as little as 4 GB /temp folder, and gotten 15 minutes of recording, then it crashes. i'll use a 9GB SCSI drive to boot off of, that solves the 33mb/s issue, as it'll be 80mb/s. if i use USB for the other HDDs, one will be a 40gb, specifically for the /temp folder, and the 80GB i'm running now, for saving music onto. having the faster drives will help me because it'll take some off the processor. its not hard to realize that 33mb/s is extremely bottlenecked for an OS, and if you're recording something, you don't want a slow access time to your /temp folder, that acts as a buffer for the recording. as much as i would like to go SATA, i'd rather not, i'm used to PATA, i don't want to get into anything else.First, faster drives do not reduce CPU load. As for all the speeds, look up as PATA is *NOT* 33MB/s.
it may seem a little stupid to some, but i have it worked out for what i'll be doing, and how i need it. i'm not going to say anyone is wrong about anything, because all other methods will work, but the other methods are out of my reach. i get the case and PSU for christmas, a combined total of about $90+, and thats about all i can really ask for, the USB and whatnot will be from my sisters, because as cheap as it is to get IDE controllers that are PCI based, i'm no big fan of ribbon cables all over, as you can tell if you look at the picture of my current computer. it may be a big case, but the size of the processors take away from some room that most people do have. the size of the two processors on the board is about equal to a PSU, so i'm contouring the setup with space and speed.Ribbon cables? who needs ribbon cables for PATA? http://www.pctoys.com/840556017325.html
I also do have a dual slot 1 system, so I know exactly what you are dealing with with the dual xeon system (I have worked with xeons as well, they are taller but beyond that the same basic size and shape two slot 1 P3s)
One of my main points is that most of your information is either severely out of date or just wrong. Please, for your own sake, do some additional looking! Not doing so will only hurt you in the end.
Here is my dual P3. You'll notice I put it in the smallest case I have where the PSU hangs over the dual P3 CPUs. I did this for two main reasons: 1. to prove that a dual CPU machine need not take much space and can still be neat, 2. because I wanted to have my server take as little space as possible.
There is only one drive in it in this picture, but I have three PATA drives in it now, and a zip drive and floppy. It is just as neat now as it is in that picture.
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Please check the posting rules.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61853Pay special attention to #6: provide as much information as you can.
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Another nice trick is to take a screenshot of the computer and put it as the background then set the taskbar to the side and autohide on, and hide the desktop icons. A nice addon is screenshotting an error message too. *I.....CAN'T.....CLICK.....IT!*
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I voted admin. but I am somewhere inbetween on my system. I use DropMyRights for several high-risk programs that I do not personally use just incase something gets into my system so the damage done is limited. I tried a user and power user account but I got so sick of the problems that created. Zxian got it right, some braindead programmer thought that gem up I'll bet.
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Here you go, this is the one I use.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16816124001
The only thing is you may have to get UNIFLASH and find an old version of the card BIOS is your motherboard is quirky with it. I had to do this to one of them, if you need the BIOS for one or help flashing it (if you decide to get one or three) I will be glad to help.
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I think I know what you are talking about. I saw it in passing once on a client's system way back when DOS was king. It was named "summer games" or something similar.
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looks to me like your javascript handler is fubar. Try doing a clean install of opera and using it's standard setup for a while (without your addons).
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newish mobo 2.2ghz+ (supports 98se)
newish video card 6600GT AGP
The nForce3 chipset has 9x/me drivers on nVidia's site right now... And IIRC it takes s939 CPUs, so you could concievably stick the brand spankin newest athlon64 or Opteron in it and have full support.
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That was never a router's original purpose. And personally, I think router incorporated firewalls are junk. That goes without mentioning that I think firewalls are useless in general.
I agree, honestly. The only hardware firewall anyone truly needs IMHO is already present within the very nature of any NAT router.
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As the others have said, you need to purchase a NAT router, available almost anywhere computers and computer parts are sold (even wal-mart). The instructions in the router box will tell you how to get everything set up.
IPs are like addresses. No two computers can have the same address or the information (network traffic) will not know where to go. Trying to set two (or more) PCs to the same IP can and will result in all sorts of havvoc that will not be localized to just your machines usually. In short, it could bring down the whole network.
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Nice lineup! I never played descent, but I played terminal velocity. I actually got Descent3 from a vidcard purchase long ago but never tried it.
Which duke nukem was your favorite? I loved 2 but 3D was a bit...nasty at times. (can you imagine a woman playing that game? I did and liked...most of it, just parts made me wanna hurl.)
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It is never my attention to troll some one.
jaqie,
If I made you feel like that then I’m sorry
Accepted. If you feel I wronged you in some way, I apologize.
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well how about both of you guys stop fighting then and wer wont have any problems.
I wasn't attempting to fight, I was attempting to help someone learn how something really worked...
It wasn't about what I like or don't like, it was about how stuff works and trying to help someone learn. I actually do use onboard video in light load systems.jaqie-if u dont want onboard then dont get it. punto will fight forever, ill promise you that so no point in continuing this on until some major consequences are given.and my opinion is that of coarse onboard will lower your bandwith, but hardly enough to be noticeable unless you are doing intensive video applications which means that you would want a video card anyways.. so just pick whatever you think is right, if you think that you are correct then just go with it as im sure that arguing will not change ur mind.My point was that it will lower performance and may have not been the best thing to reccomend, also that Memtest86 cannot show the bandwidth loss of a shared memory video card configuration.
I was done with the whole bit as soon as I saw for certain that the other poster was not simply mistaken but was attempting to troll. Once I realized that, I was done with the whole exchange.
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You don't seem to understand.
most motherboards (even old ones) come with 2 PATA channels, some come with 4. Each one of those can take a master and slave drive. I simply never put a slave on any. When I need more drives in a system then there are channels, I add more with PCI cards, one channel per drive I use. A lot of the time I don't even have hard drives hooked to the included motherboard channels because the add in cards don't usually support booting from anything but the hard drives on them but the system BIOS does for the PATA channels that are on the motherboard.
I have had systems with two PATA cards in them and four PATA channels on the motherboard. That gave me a total of eight PATA channels to work with, and I had eight drives (optical, zip, and 6 hard drives) in the system.
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Because it doesn't allow you to put it off until the OS has been installed. I actually have RunOnce set up to open up the 'xp-style' account manager on first boot. I want windows to be completely installed and ready to go before any input is required.
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nVidia and ATi drivers have an option for that in their control panel.
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If it is an issue with the slave hack, why use slaves at all?
I haven't had a drive as slave in a computer since 1999 or so. Master/slave is a horrid hack that never should have been implemented IMHO.
Besides, PCI PATA controllers are cheap as dirt now anyways. I got a couple sil0680 based ones myself just laying around incase I need them.
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Mayhap I could have my name, if it is possible, please?
Jaqie Fox
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Thank you very much!
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Linux? hm. the only penguin in my house is Roto-router (WRT54GS) so no X there.
BSD? Wehn I run BSD I am always in XFCE4. I do compile KDE-Lite though for Konsole (LOVE that!) and a few other K apps I like... and i run them in XFCE.
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yes, i understand what you're saying, but if the drives are going through USB, they'll be recognized as external, and i'd even be able to unplug them if i wanted at any time. the big thing about going PATA is that its 33mb/s.
NTLDR is missing error
in Windows XP
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it sounds like the OP decided to install another copy of XP to one of the two remaining drives while the original drive was still the boot device, thereby when he removed it the OS was still on one of the two remaining drives but the bootblock was still on the drive that was removed.