I have an Adaptec 1430SA card and an older Asus P5E3 Prem Wi-Fi motherboard, what i want to do is have all drives running of my motherboard (5 in total) and the 4 drives running of my card all using the same single HDD LED activity light, I think i have to set the card up to use aggregate...

i have 1.48mb windows based exe program.i have to run it on dos.As the largest executable program in dos must be 640k .i can i execute this program on doswitout any problem.

I checked Newegg and CDW neither one sells normal 1.8" drives. Who does?

Hi, I'm wondering if such adapters exist, that takes a 1.8" IDE HDD from ultraportables/ipods, and converts them to a 2.5" form factor. I've seen bare adapter PCBs, but I'm not sure if the entire PCB adapter + 1.8" HDD will fit within a 2.5" form factor, and plug into a regular laptop...if such...

I recently acquired a 9-track 1/2" tape drive with a pertec interface. I'm looking for an interface card and data conversion/exchange software for Windows 2000/Windows XP. A little googling revealed that there are pertec-SCSI adapters, but I don't know how well this will work with...

Just thinking about a fast drive. Thanks.

I don't see the answer to this in the service manual for my HP Pavilion ze4430, but since I'm getting a SMART warning that the 40 GB drive is about to fail I'd like to replace it with a 60 or 100 GB drive. The manual mentions support for drives up to 60 GB, but I suspect that's because that was the...

Hi: I was recently installing an internal 100 mb Zip drive to my computer, running W2000pro. Just as an experiment, I chose not to go with the recommended driver in the installation proceedure and went with something else (I don't know what). Now , when I start up the computer it gets about half...

I've often noticed that sometimes my boot hard disk goes crazy, disk activity light flickers constantly, system becomes unresponsive, but there's no particular process hogging the processor cores. I managed to watch one such incident while Hard Disk Sentinel was present in memory, and when I...

Sorry for repost, I posted to sci.electronics before, which does not exist. Hi! I'm planning a robotic facility that needs to maintain hardware (exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years. One of the problems is to maintain firmware and operating systems for this period. What...

I have 6 15K RPM Ultra3 36.4 gb SCSI disks and 4 10K RPM Ultra3 36.4 gb SCSI disks. I want to make Raid5 for my server. I want to ask if there could be a problem and if there won't be any problem, how will be its performance compared to both 10K RPM and 15K RPM SCSI disks ?

Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any ideas? sincerely, /iaw

Hi group. With all the computers being scrapped, there must be literally thousands of useless HDD's dumped every week in the UK alone. So, things to do with them. 1) Maglev (take off heads, use one of the actuator magnets) 2) Hard drive speakers (see Afrotech's site for this one) 3) Novelty...

Whiles attempting to fdisk a 10GB HDD on a laptop, I receive the following errormessage: "The master boot code has NOT been updated" Anyone have a better clue as to what this is and how to solve the problem? I downloaded the DFT and it reports that the driver is password protected, is there a...

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop http://gizmodo.com/sadly-this-10tb-hard-drive-is-designed-for-servers-not-1691245306 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive...

This might seem like an ultra-paranoid configuration to some but I could use some advice. I am going to get two raid cards that supports 6 PATA drives each. I am going to get two of those cases that are NORMALLY used to mount multiple cd/dvd drives for mass duplication and use it instead to house...

12 TB external drive for $613: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LEF28CI/ Unreal. I like the flip top lid. Lynn

Does anyone have any information about 12 volt printers, especially for use on boats to print out weather faxes, etc. I can't find information about manufacturers or access to products.

I have several 120 GB h/d's that are single-partitioned to FAT32 and are used extensively as USB2 drives attached to a Windows 98SE system. ONE of these drives is not recognzied by my Win2000 system (data management reports that the drive is not a valid Windows format????). This same drive works...

Any idea when laptop drives will exceed 100GB?