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Subject: hard dicsk
Original Message Date: 03-Feb-02 @ 10:27 PM - hard dicsk
Is 7,200 rpm the fastest speed you can get? if not where can i buy a faster one
i cant go wrong with 8.5 ms access time ..right?
2 meg cache is ample?
have you heared of this barrocuda seagate beast? is it worth spending the extra? what would the advantages be over my spec above?
Do you know anywhere online (UK) i can get really cheap deals apart from scan.co.uk or ebuyer.com ??
am i asking too many questions?
Thanks, Mark
Message 33/58 22-Jun-02 @ 01:20 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 34/58 24-Jun-02 @ 12:42 PM - RE: hard dicsk
control panel > add remove programs > Startup disk
you probabaly know that, but some people niglect it.
Fusion
Message 35/58 24-Jun-02 @ 08:06 PM - RE: hard dicsk
are you sure you have it set to slave if its on the same bus as the old one? are you sure the power is on?
no offense intended. it happens
Message 36/58 25-Jun-02 @ 03:11 AM - RE: hard dicsk
Influx - It's difficult to tell if the thing is on. I'm not sure how to know if the power cable is hooked up properly or if it even works. I did see an IDE drive in CMOS but it was for a 6.2 gig drive, not a 20 gig (which is what I have).
Message 37/58 25-Jun-02 @ 03:52 AM - RE: hard dicsk
the power..there is no way to hook it up "wrong" but you COULD have the IDE cable in wrong, or you COULD have it set to master (if the other drive is set to master on the same buss you wont see the 20 gig)
Message 38/58 25-Jun-02 @ 12:36 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 39/58 25-Jun-02 @ 11:30 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Message 40/58 28-Jun-02 @ 06:57 PM - RE: hard dicsk
Now, when we tried to install the OS on the new drive, we found I couldn't load the OS onto the IDE drive because my cd-rom is SCSI and the floppy disk is recognized before the computer boots up the scsi drives and card. When I try to boot with cd support, the computer doesn't see the scsi drive and can't load the os from the scsi drive.
Soooooo - we pulled the ide cd-rom from my home computer, and plugged it in, but couldn't get the computer to accept the cd-rom drive and the hd on the same ide cable. It detected either one individually, but not at the same time. So we figured we could format my scsi hd and load the os onto that first (so I can start testing out Sonar), but when trying to do the install, the install stalls at "PCI bus scan completed". The cd-rom drives are loaded (Oak technology) but the process aborts at at "PCI bus scan completed".
Does anyone have any ideas? My 60 day trial period for Sonar is running out... Although having started RTFM, I can see that I'm gonna love it more than Cubase 3.7 and Wavelab 2 combined.
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