On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:12, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
I may be wrong, but my understanding was that the ATA/133 drives were in all aspects incompatible with the slower bus speeds. Thus I recon he needs the extra controller to access the drive at all..
Well, since I have on my test bench beside me,and about to reconfig a Oracle DB for a client running on Win2000 with 2 of these drives, let me atest at least , that they are back-compatible to 33/66MHz interfaces, since 66MHz is particularly the limit ,without patch on NT/win2K. The way I got them recognised in MS was; whilst in the default 66MHz ide, I then installed the drivers from the CD of the interface, ending up with about 4/5 IDE interfaces in Sys Manager. Then moved up the needed one to the top of the tree. Wish I ran IDE interfaces on my servers. Mainly SCSI here. Let's know more !! -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572
An interesting sidelight on hard disk integrity: an excellent source of info on the subject is Gibson Research (www.grc.com), run by Steve Gibson. And the king of all disk-checking programs is his Spinrite program. But -- Although Steve is no fan of Microsoft, he inexplicably wrote Spinrite so it only checks Windows partitions. For Windows partitions it does a marvelous job, verifying the low-level formatting and rewriting tracks so as to refresh them. I wrote to him once suggesting that Spinrite really ought to operate on drives, not partitions, but never heard back. I guess that even the good guys sometimes get things wrong. Paul Abrahams
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:26:53PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Although Steve is no fan of Microsoft, he inexplicably wrote Spinrite so it only checks Windows partitions. For Windows partitions it does a marvelous job, verifying the low-level formatting and rewriting tracks so as to refresh them. I wrote to him once suggesting that Spinrite really ought to operate on drives, not partitions, but never heard back.
I guess that even the good guys sometimes get things wrong.
What makes you think he is not a fan of Microsoft? Every program I've ever seen from him is targeted only at Microsoft platforms. His web site gives me the impression that he thinks there is no such thing as computing if it's not done on a Microsoft OS. He did complain about the raw sockets in the XP network stack before it was released, but that doesn't really change anything. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
On Saturday 27 April 2002 04:53, Keith Winston wrote:
He did complain about the raw sockets in the XP network stack before it was released, but that doesn't really change anything.
Raw sockets had been in every flavour on unix for 30 years before XP was released, and I never heard him complain about it - or even give any indication that he knew what it was. See my earlier post about pseudo-science Anders
On Friday 26 April 2002 21:53 pm, you wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:26:53PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Although Steve is no fan of Microsoft, he inexplicably wrote Spinrite so it only checks Windows partitions. For Windows partitions it does a marvelous job, verifying the low-level formatting and rewriting tracks so as to refresh them. I wrote to him once suggesting that Spinrite really ought to operate on drives, not partitions, but never heard back.
I guess that even the good guys sometimes get things wrong.
What makes you think he is not a fan of Microsoft? Every program I've ever seen from him is targeted only at Microsoft platforms. His web site gives me the impression that he thinks there is no such thing as computing if it's not done on a Microsoft OS.
He did complain about the raw sockets in the XP network stack before it was released, but that doesn't really change anything.
Best Regards, Keith
Not true at all. On one of the webpages, he goes into some detail about why he uses M$ stuff and why he makes the programs for M$ stuff...because most people who actually *need* his kind of security help, *use* M$ crap. His server runs on Unix (IIRR, he said he liked Unix better than Linux, but I can't remember the exact reason(s)), but that's all he has to do with *nix. He'd love to switch over completely to *nix, but because of the kind of person he is, he wants to help those who really need the help...people who use M$. Naturally, this isn't word for word what Steve says, but it's the gist of it. John -- M$: What can we do to frustrate and aggravate you today?
And on the 'exelence' of his work: http://grcsucks.com/ Gr. GJR On Saturday 27 April 2002 04:26, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
An interesting sidelight on hard disk integrity: an excellent source of info on the subject is Gibson Research (www.grc.com), run by Steve Gibson. And the king of all disk-checking programs is his Spinrite program.
But --
Although Steve is no fan of Microsoft, he inexplicably wrote Spinrite so it only checks Windows partitions. For Windows partitions it does a marvelous job, verifying the low-level formatting and rewriting tracks so as to refresh them. I wrote to him once suggesting that Spinrite really ought to operate on drives, not partitions, but never heard back.
I guess that even the good guys sometimes get things wrong.
Paul Abrahams
On Saturday 27 April 2002 05:21 am, you wrote:
And on the 'exelence' of his work:
I suggest that anyone who wonders where the truth is should visit both sites: www.grc.com www.grcsucks.com and draw your own conclusions. Paul
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