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On Sat, 14 May 2005 09:56:01 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: We have had no problems with our Directron Kingwin units. You admit that you are only using an ATA33 system with them. And I said that my son is running his a 250GB HD in a KF-23. You do see a lot less problems if you dont flout standards. How does Kingwin flout the standards? Do you have any direct evidence that the Directron Kingwin is flauting the ATA standard? If you do I want to see it because if it is true I am going to take the matter up with Directron. I know some people there and I can tell you that they do not like to sell defective parts because it costs them more than they make in the long run. That's why I only shop at Directron where they sell millions of stuff and know what works and what doesn't. Its never possible for any operation to ever know what results every single one of their customers gets. It's not the individual but the aggregate that counts because a systematic problem will only be uncovered in aggregate usage. An individual can have other reasons for why something is not working. There's been quite a few reports of problems with removable drive bays in the US in csipchs alone. Does the Kingwin unit show up often? IOW, are specific models prone to problems and other models not? Also, what about the model of disk drive? Is the cable marginal? Are there 2 removable drives on the same IDE cable? What about the MB model? All these impact the reliability of removable drives. Wouldn't it be dishonest - and illegal - for a manufacturer to claim that it's product is specification compliant yet not be? Kingwin claims to be ATA compliant, so why should I believe they are "flaunting" anything? I realize that unscrupulous makers can flout standards, but I find it hard to accept without evidence that a brand name like Directron Kingwin would be that way. |
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 09:59:47 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: The reason for that is my CD-RW wants to be a master You sure it needs to be ? That's what Mitrsumi claimed. Yeah, and they were wrong. The unit was pure crap - it never worked properly even when it was a IDE master. However, I have a better CD-RW for my new machine. I wouldnt bother with CDRW now, I'd get a DVD burner instead. I will when I need to, but for now I have the other CD-RW available from an old machine my son fried. Anyway, my son is the DVD guy. That old Mitsumi was a piece of crap. Yeah, they were pretty bad. They were also pretty arrogant. I sent the unit in to be replaced and they said they were not going to replace it because I had written the word "DAMAGED" on the top. So they sent it back. If you shook it lightly you could hear loose parts rattling around inside. Depending on the way you put it in the machine, it would make a whirring sound when you booted the computer. I wrote the vendor in Houston (not Directron) who sold me the unit and told him either to take the piece of crap back or I would not buy from him again. He apparently did not want my business because all he would do is send it to the factory. I told him I already did it and what they did and he just ignored me. That's when I discovered Directron and have bought from them ever since. I would never buy their junk again. You said you wouldnt buy serial #1 again too |-) Yeah, but I have an agreement that I can return the unit if it doesn't perform as advertised and incur no restocking fees. I believe they want me to evaluate it for them. I dont bother with floppy drives anymore. Dont even bother to install one in most PCs I assemble. Windows prompts for an "emergency repair disk" which is kept on a floppy. I've reported you to the RSPCPPDOSLPTUBD, you'll be soorree... I like Legacy. Your likes are irrelevant. They are relevant to me - and that's all that counts. |
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Bob wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote We have had no problems with our Directron Kingwin units. You admit that you are only using an ATA33 system with them. And I said that my son is running his a 250GB HD in a KF-23. But you didnt specify how that was being run. You do see a lot less problems if you dont flout standards. How does Kingwin flout the standards? The main flouting of the standards with removable drive bays is with the cable detail between the drive connector and the motherboard connector. Its nothing like the standard specifys. Do you have any direct evidence that the Directron Kingwin is flauting the ATA standard? Yes, nothing else is even possible with removable drive bays. If you do I want to see it http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1532v2r0d-ATA-ATAPI-7.pdf Figure 9 because if it is true I am going to take the matter up with Directron. It wont be any news to them and if you demand strict adherence to the standard, they will tell you to use a SATA based system. I know some people there and I can tell you that they do not like to sell defective parts because it costs them more than they make in the long run. They have no choice but to flout the ATA standard with a removable drive bay. That's why I only shop at Directron where they sell millions of stuff and know what works and what doesn't. Its never possible for any operation to ever know what results every single one of their customers gets. It's not the individual but the aggregate that counts because a systematic problem will only be uncovered in aggregate usage. Its the exceptions that bite when you flout standards. An individual can have other reasons for why something is not working. Yes, thats why I said it isnt possible for an operation like Directron to be able to get a handle on what happens when they have flouted the standards. We have standards for a reason. There's been quite a few reports of problems with removable drive bays in the US in csipchs alone. Does the Kingwin unit show up often? Often enough for me to avoid removable drive bays. IOW, are specific models prone to problems and other models not? No, there is no removable drive bay system that never has any problems. Also, what about the model of disk drive? Yes, the problem is definitely worse with modern high performance interface hard drives. Is the cable marginal? The problem is still seen with cables within the standard's specs. Are there 2 removable drives on the same IDE cable? Its often not practical to have just one drive and the problem is still seen with just one anyway. What about the MB model? The whole point of adhering to standards is that you avoid that silly stuff, that a particular removable drive bay only works reliably with a particular hard drive model and motherboard model. All these impact the reliability of removable drives. Because they flout the ATA standard. Wouldn't it be dishonest Not if they dont claim it adheres to the ATA standard when it doesnt. - and illegal Certainly not unless the manufacturer claims it adheres to the ATA standard when it doesnt. - for a manufacturer to claim that it's product is specification compliant Kingwin doesnt claim that. yet not be? Kingwin claims to be ATA compliant, Gotta cite on that ? http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.a...ateID=35&ID=87 doesnt appear to do that. so why should I believe they are "flaunting" anything? See the ATA document cited above. And its FLOUT not flaunt I realize that unscrupulous makers can flout standards, but I find it hard to accept without evidence that a brand name like Directron Kingwin would be that way. There is no alternative with an ATA/IDE removable drive bay. The SATA removable drive bays dont need to flout the standard. |
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Bob wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote The reason for that is my CD-RW wants to be a master You sure it needs to be ? That's what Mitrsumi claimed. Yeah, and they were wrong. The unit was pure crap - it never worked properly even when it was a IDE master. Yeah, it was notorious for being a dud and that insistance on it being master appears to have just been a desperate attempt to use it in a config that wasnt quite as bad as when it was jumpered as slave. The 'designers' should have been taken out the back and shot. However, I have a better CD-RW for my new machine. I wouldnt bother with CDRW now, I'd get a DVD burner instead. I will when I need to, but for now I have the other CD-RW available from an old machine my son fried. Anyway, my son is the DVD guy. DVD is just much better value now, even just for data backup. That old Mitsumi was a piece of crap. Yeah, they were pretty bad. They were also pretty arrogant. I sent the unit in to be replaced and they said they were not going to replace it because I had written the word "DAMAGED" on the top. So they sent it back. If you shook it lightly you could hear loose parts rattling around inside. Novel approach to 'support' |-) Depending on the way you put it in the machine, it would make a whirring sound when you booted the computer. I wrote the vendor in Houston (not Directron) who sold me the unit and told him either to take the piece of crap back or I would not buy from him again. He apparently did not want my business because all he would do is send it to the factory. I told him I already did it and what they did and he just ignored me. That's when I discovered Directron and have bought from them ever since. I would never buy their junk again. You said you wouldnt buy serial #1 again too |-) Yeah, but I have an agreement that I can return the unit if it doesn't perform as advertised and incur no restocking fees. I believe they want me to evaluate it for them. Urk, how you will be wearing your cast iron shorts |-) I dont bother with floppy drives anymore. Dont even bother to install one in most PCs I assemble. Windows prompts for an "emergency repair disk" which is kept on a floppy. XP doesnt. I've reported you to the RSPCPPDOSLPTUBD, you'll be soorree... I like Legacy. Your likes are irrelevant. They are relevant to me - and that's all that counts. Not now that the RSPCPPDOSLPTUBD is on the job. |
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On Sun, 15 May 2005 04:30:21 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1532v2r0d-ATA-ATAPI-7.pdf Figure 9 I fail to see the significance of that figure. What I do see inside the box is an 80-wire ATA-type connector that connects to the drive - it appears to be the same as an official ATA ribbon cable. There is the connector between the tray and the box that the tray goes into. That looks like an old Centronics 20 pin connector, like the ones used on printers. Are you saying that it is this 20-pin connector that is causing the removable bay to be non-compliant? If so, do you have direct evidence that using such an arrangement actually causes a problem? I can see how such an arrangement can be abused by using poor quality parts, but if the parts used are quality, how can it cause actual problems? IOW, is this a boogy man or a real problem with the Directron Kingwin bay? Have you contacted Kingwin to discuss this matter? Or are you issuing a blanket indictment based on anecdotal claims about inferior units? They have no choice but to flout the ATA standard with a removable drive bay. Yes, I can see that with the use of a 20-pin connector between the tray and the bay. I would think they could use a 40-pin connector specifically designed to meet ATA specifications. But that's not the issue here. Its the exceptions that bite when you flout standards. I agree when the components are crap. But how do you know that the components used by Kingwin cause a real problem? We have standards for a reason. I spent time as a hardware design engineer in the SCADA indusrty. When I was R&D manager our group was the first to put an affordable CMOS RTU on the market - we sold literally thousands. I am very knowledgeable of the importance of standards. Yet we had to cut corners on some standards because CMOS LSI was relatively new at the time (c. 1983). We subjected our design to the most rigorous of tests with beta sights such as Mobil Oil Producing Texas New Mexico - out in the oil field. They used 100 of them for pumpoff control in a very hazardous environment. We passed all the tests. IOW, if you are forced to "flout" a standard, and you produce a robust workaround and test the livin' crap out of it. After all, today's standards are yesterday's "flouted" standards brought up to speed in a new situation. If everybody in the design business adhered to existing standards like anal retentives, then we would still be using clubs to catch supper. Does the Kingwin unit show up often? Often enough for me to avoid removable drive bays. I'll take that as a "no". I appreciate your concerns and I am aware of problems that can exist when someone flouts standards. But I am also experienced enough to know that standards are flouted to create new products. That's how new standards get written. One area I participated in was modem standards. Back then Bell 212A was the dominant standard - that was 24 Kbits/sec. We used a brand new CMOS modem chip designed and manufactured by Texas Instruments in England. That's how we kept costs so low. It was a risk but when the Texas New Mexico trials were completed we knew the risks had paid off. As a result we sold a ****load of those RTUs to the pipelines like Panhandle Eastern (now Duke Energy). They needed to run the units off solar panels, so CMOS was a necessity. No, there is no removable drive bay system that never has any problems. Please furnish direct evidence that the Directron Kingwin KF-23 has caused any real problems. Its often not practical to have just one drive and the problem is still seen with just one anyway. I put my boot disk directly on the primary IDE cable as usual, and I put the removable one on the other cable as a slave (because of that crap Mitsumi CD-RW problem). I tried it other ways but the transfer rate measured by DIP 4.0 is always about the same. It is actually a bit faster with the removable drive as second channel slave. The whole point of adhering to standards is that you avoid that silly stuff, that a particular removable drive bay only works reliably with a particular hard drive model and motherboard model. I'll take that to mean high-quality MB and drive. I don't buy junk - never have and never will. I pay extra for high-quality components. I can understand your concerns if some script kiddy builds an el-cheapo piece of crap with third-rate junk from fly by night suppliers. But I don't do that, so you can't lump me with the twits. Because they flout the ATA standard. I am trying to make a case that there are two kinds of flouting - the kind that you can get by with and the kind that you cannot. I have the impression that you are tarring the entire removable bay industry with too broad a brush. - for a manufacturer to claim that it's product is specification compliant Kingwin doesnt claim that. yet not be? Kingwin claims to be ATA compliant, Gotta cite on that ? I have their marketing collateral, which reads in part: "Support all brands of 3.5" IDE ATA 33/66/100/133 H.D.D." The operative word is "support". Until I am told otherwise, I have to take that to mean they meet the standards, albeit not the way you insist they do. If I connect two tin cans with a taut string, I have a communications device. It is as good if not better than a telephone. I am obviously not compliant with telephony specs but I do "support" voice communications when used as directed. Maybe Kingwin found that using a "Centronic" 20-pin connector met the requirements for ATA compliance, although they did not implement the recommended design. http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.a...ateID=35&ID=87 doesnt appear to do that. Please point out where they are non-compliant. And its FLOUT not flaunt OK. I will use flout instead. I never could spell worth a crap, although I am better than a lot of posters. BTW, since one good deed deserves another, the correct word is "it's" not "its". I ususally do not engage in spelling flames. The SATA removable drive bays dont need to flout the standard. I am not ready for SATA. |
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On Sun, 15 May 2005 04:37:53 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote: That's what Mitrsumi claimed. Yeah, and they were wrong. The unit was pure crap - it never worked properly even when it was a IDE master. Yeah, it was notorious for being a dud and that insistance on it being master appears to have just been a desperate attempt to use it in a config that wasnt quite as bad as when it was jumpered as slave. The 'designers' should have been taken out the back and shot. After I bad-mouthed Mitsumi to my erstwhile supplier, I found they not only dropped that unit but they quit selling any Mitsumi products. They were the largest wholesale vendor in Houston back then. It pays to bitch sometimes. DVD is just much better value now, even just for data backup. 5 GB is not enough for me, that's why I use a disk. For $50 I can back up all I want. And it is erasable too. They were also pretty arrogant. I sent the unit in to be replaced and they said they were not going to replace it because I had written the word "DAMAGED" on the top. So they sent it back. If you shook it lightly you could hear loose parts rattling around inside. Novel approach to 'support' |-) Pricks. Urk, how you will be wearing your cast iron shorts |-) I like the concept so much I just have to try it out. There is something really neat about how it is designed. I pop a second disk in hot and in 15 minutes I have a 10GB backup which I can take out hot. And I do not have to do anything but suspend low-level disk processes, like Disk Manager. Or so they claim. Even if I have to turn off all background tasks, the convenience of hot swappable backups is enough to get me interested. For the past 5 years I have had to stop everything, shut the machine off, put in the removable drive, boot to DOS and run a slow backup utility (DIP) that taked 1 hour per 10GB (with verify - I never back up without turning verify on). Then I have to power down again and remove the drive. On top of that it appears the partition is screwed up when I want to restore. Bummer. Windows prompts for an "emergency repair disk" which is kept on a floppy. XP doesnt. I am waiting for my son to become the expert on XP so I won't have to learn yet another Windows scheme. I am sure they pay good money for a small group to figure out ways to confuse consumers where things are. That's how much Gates is ****ed off about UNIX and its human-friendly way of doing things. He wanted to join with AT&T and they were ready to sign him up until he insisted becoming a board member. Good thing they booted him away. It was not much later that he performed the slickest case of date rape known in the industry with IBM. They are relevant to me - and that's all that counts. Not now that the RSPCPPDOSLPTUBD is on the job. They are irrelevant. |
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Bob wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote http://www.t13.org/docs2002/d1532v2r0d-ATA-ATAPI-7.pdf Figure 9 I fail to see the significance of that figure. What there is electrically between the motherboard and drive connector is completely different in Fig 9 and with a removable drive bay. What I do see inside the box is an 80-wire ATA-type connector that connects to the drive - it appears to be the same as an official ATA ribbon cable. Pity about what is between that particular connector and the one that connects to the motherboard, with a removable drive bay. There is the connector between the tray and the box that the tray goes into. That looks like an old Centronics 20 pin connector, like the ones used on printers. And that is nothing like Fig 9, electrically. Are you saying that it is this 20-pin connector that is causing the removable bay to be non-compliant? Yes, and the number of discontinuitys between the motherboard connector and the drive connector. With an ATA standard cable, there are no electrical discontinuitys at all. If so, do you have direct evidence that using such an arrangement actually causes a problem? Yes, I have already told you that there have been a number of reports of problems in here alone with removable drive bays. You commented on one of them yourself. I can see how such an arrangement can be abused by using poor quality parts, but if the parts used are quality, how can it cause actual problems? You clearly dont know anything about electrical transmission lines. IOW, is this a boogy man Nope. I have already told you that there have been a number of reports of problems in here alone with removable drive bays. You commented on one of them yourself. or a real problem with the Directron Kingwin bay? Flouting standards is always a real problem for those of us who understand why we have standards. Have you contacted Kingwin to discuss this matter? Dont need to. They are sure to have realised that their removable drive bays flout the ATA standard, even if you dont. Or are you issuing a blanket indictment Anyone with a clue can do that when they flout the ATA standard. based on anecdotal claims about inferior units? Are you attempting to brush off the FACT that they flout the ATA standard ? They have no choice but to flout the ATA standard with a removable drive bay. Yes, I can see that with the use of a 20-pin connector between the tray and the bay. I would think they could use a 40-pin connector specifically designed to meet ATA specifications. It would STILL flout the ATA standard because that doesnt allow for ANY connector between the motherboard and drive connector. But that's not the issue here. Corse it is. Its the exceptions that bite when you flout standards. I agree when the components are crap. But how do you know that the components used by Kingwin cause a real problem? I said they flout the ATA standard. They clearly do. We have standards for a reason. I spent time as a hardware design engineer in the SCADA indusrty. But clearly dont know anything about the reasons the ATA standard on that 80 wire cable was chosen. Its basically an unterminated transmission line. And that matters with ATA100 and ATA133 speeds particularly. When I was R&D manager our group was the first to put an affordable CMOS RTU on the market - we sold literally thousands. I am very knowledgeable of the importance of standards. Yet you choose to use a removable drive bay that flouts the ATA standard when you could use a SATA removable drive bay that is standard compliant instead. You can get those from KingWin too. Yet we had to cut corners on some standards because CMOS LSI was relatively new at the time (c. 1983). We subjected our design to the most rigorous of tests with beta sights such as Mobil Oil Producing Texas New Mexico - out in the oil field. They used 100 of them for pumpoff control in a very hazardous environment. We passed all the tests. Some of us prefer to adhere to standards. For a reason. IOW, if you are forced to "flout" a standard, You arent with removable drive bays, you can comply with the SATA standard and still get that from the same supplier. and you produce a robust workaround and test the livin' crap out of it. Not feasible for a home user and a removable drive bay. Very feasible to use a SATA removable drive bay and not breach the standard at all. After all, today's standards are yesterday's "flouted" standards brought up to speed in a new situation. Wrong with hard drive interface standards. If everybody in the design business adhered to existing standards like anal retentives, then we would still be using clubs to catch supper. Crap, its completely trivial to buy a removable drive bay that doesnt flout the relevant standard. Does the Kingwin unit show up often? Often enough for me to avoid removable drive bays. I'll take that as a "no". More fool you. I appreciate your concerns and I am aware of problems that can exist when someone flouts standards. But I am also experienced enough to know that standards are flouted to create new products. That's how new standards get written. Like hell it is. Didnt happen with SATA which does allow removable drive bays, essentially by redesigning the connector and changing to a serial transmission method that avoids the massive limitations we were starting to see with ATA100 and ATA133 speeds. One area I participated in was modem standards. Irrelevant to hard drive standards. Back then Bell 212A was the dominant standard - that was 24 Kbits/sec. We used a brand new CMOS modem chip designed and manufactured by Texas Instruments in England. That's how we kept costs so low. It was a risk but when the Texas New Mexico trials were completed we knew the risks had paid off. Like I said, irrelevant to hard drive standards when there is no need to flout the standard when SATA allows standard compliant removable drive bays and adds hot swap as well. THATS the way to get a reliable removable drive bay. As a result we sold a ****load of those RTUs to the pipelines like Panhandle Eastern (now Duke Energy). They needed to run the units off solar panels, so CMOS was a necessity. Irrelevant to removable drive bays. IOW, are specific models prone to problems and other models not? No, there is no removable drive bay system that never has any problems. Please furnish direct evidence that the Directron Directron is completely irrelevant. Kingwin KF-23 has caused any real problems. Rus already told you of one example. It aint the only one. Are there 2 removable drives on the same IDE cable? Its often not practical to have just one drive and the problem is still seen with just one anyway. I put my boot disk directly on the primary IDE cable as usual, and I put the removable one on the other cable as a slave And some choose to have the boot drive in the removable bay, so they can change the OS they are booting from conveniently and can recover from a boot drive disaster much more quickly too. (because of that crap Mitsumi CD-RW problem). I tried it other ways but the transfer rate measured by DIP 4.0 is always about the same. It is actually a bit faster with the removable drive as second channel slave. Irrelevant to whether PATA removable drive bays flout the standard. What about the MB model? The whole point of adhering to standards is that you avoid that silly stuff, that a particular removable drive bay only works reliably with a particular hard drive model and motherboard model. I'll take that to mean high-quality MB and drive. More fool you again. I don't buy junk - never have and never will. I pay extra for high-quality components. Problems have been seen with high quality motherboards, hard drives and removable drive bays too. Some of us prefer to stay with the standards when that is feasible, and it is with removable drive bays. I can understand your concerns if some script kiddy builds an el-cheapo piece of crap with third-rate junk from fly by night suppliers. Never ever said anything about those at all. But I don't do that, so you can't lump me with the twits. Never did. All these impact the reliability of removable drives. Because they flout the ATA standard. I am trying to make a case that there are two kinds of flouting - the kind that you can get by with and the kind that you cannot. No need to flout the standard if you want a removable drive bay. Just use a SATA standard compliant removable drive bay. I have the impression that you are tarring the entire removable bay industry with too broad a brush. You're deliberately ignoring the FACT that Rus has seen a problem with Kingwin removable drive bays BECAUSE they flout the standard. He aint the only one that has. - for a manufacturer to claim that it's product is specification compliant Kingwin doesnt claim that. yet not be? Kingwin claims to be ATA compliant, Gotta cite on that ? I have their marketing collateral, which reads in part: "Support all brands of 3.5" IDE ATA 33/66/100/133 H.D.D." Thats nothing like 'specification compliant', thats just saying that their drive bays CAN USE those drives. The operative word is "support". Nope, they clearly mean that those drives can be USED in their drive bays. Different matter entirely. Until I am told otherwise, I have to take that to mean they meet the standards, You have no basis what so ever to do that. They clearly do flout the ATA standard. albeit not the way you insist they do. It aint me, its what the standare requires, stupid. If I connect two tin cans with a taut string, I have a communications device. It is as good if not better than a telephone. I am obviously not compliant with telephony specs but I do "support" voice communications when used as directed. Gets sillier by the minute. Maybe Kingwin found that using a "Centronic" 20-pin connector met the requirements for ATA compliance, It cant. although they did not implement the recommended design. It aint recommended, its mandated. If that isnt used, its not standard compliant. http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.a...ateID=35&ID=87 doesnt appear to do that. Please point out where they are non-compliant. Already did. And its FLOUT not flaunt OK. I will use flout instead. I never could spell worth a crap, Yeah, plenty of engineers have the same problem. although I am better than a lot of posters. BTW, since one good deed deserves another, the correct word is "it's" not "its". Nope, I choose to do it that way. I also choose to use the ys form instead of ies with words like stupiditys. I ususally do not engage in spelling flames. It wasnt a flame. The SATA removable drive bays dont need to flout the standard. I am not ready for SATA. Thats a remarkably silly justification for flouting the standard. |
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The SATA removable drive bays dont need to flout the standard.
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Bob wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote That's what Mitrsumi claimed. Yeah, and they were wrong. The unit was pure crap - it never worked properly even when it was a IDE master. Yeah, it was notorious for being a dud and that insistance on it being master appears to have just been a desperate attempt to use it in a config that wasnt quite as bad as when it was jumpered as slave. The 'designers' should have been taken out the back and shot. After I bad-mouthed Mitsumi to my erstwhile supplier, I found they not only dropped that unit but they quit selling any Mitsumi products. They were the largest wholesale vendor in Houston back then. It pays to bitch sometimes. Its more likely they saw a heap of others getting problems. DVD is just much better value now, even just for data backup. 5 GB is not enough for me, Its unlikely that what you will slash your wrists if you lose would be much bigger than that unless you do much video stuff. that's why I use a disk. For $ 50 I can back up all I want. And it is erasable too. And provides no real protection for the worst cases of fire, flood, theft, etc etc etc. They were also pretty arrogant. I sent the unit in to be replaced and they said they were not going to replace it because I had written the word "DAMAGED" on the top. So they sent it back. If you shook it lightly you could hear loose parts rattling around inside. Novel approach to 'support' |-) Pricks. I would never buy their junk again. You said you wouldnt buy serial #1 again too |-) Yeah, but I have an agreement that I can return the unit if it doesn't perform as advertised and incur no restocking fees. I believe they want me to evaluate it for them. Urk, hope you will be wearing your cast iron shorts |-) I like the concept so much I just have to try it out. I'd do it with SATA drives myself. There is something really neat about how it is designed. I pop a second disk in hot and in 15 minutes I have a 10GB backup which I can take out hot. And I do not have to do anything but suspend low-level disk processes, like Disk Manager. Or so they claim. Even if I have to turn off all background tasks, the convenience of hot swappable backups is enough to get me interested. Mad to not use the standard compliant hot swap that comes with SATA. For the past 5 years I have had to stop everything, shut the machine off, put in the removable drive, boot to DOS and run a slow backup utility (DIP) that taked 1 hour per 10GB (with verify - I never back up without turning verify on). Its not as bad as that with modern systems time wise. Then I have to power down again and remove the drive. On top of that it appears the partition is screwed up when I want to restore. Bummer. And it remains to be seen if the standards flouting hot swap bites you on the arse. Hence the need for the cast iron shorts. Windows prompts for an "emergency repair disk" which is kept on a floppy. XP doesnt. I am waiting for my son to become the expert on XP so I won't have to learn yet another Windows scheme. I am sure they pay good money for a small group to figure out ways to confuse consumers where things are. That's how much Gates is ****ed off about UNIX and its human-friendly way of doing things. He wanted to join with AT&T and they were ready to sign him up until he insisted becoming a board member. Its much more complicate than that. He did try pushing one flavour of unix very early on and no one was interested. Good thing they booted him away. It was not much later that he performed the slickest case of date rape known in the industry with IBM. That slut was asking to be raped at the time. They are relevant to me - and that's all that counts. Not now that the RSPCPPDOSLPTUBD is on the job. They are irrelevant. We'll see... |
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The SATA removable drive bays dont need to flout the standard.
Do you have an example of one which doesn't? What is the SATA standard eqivalent to SCSI SCA-2? From what I see, external enclosures should be using SFF-8470, but what about hot plug/swap mating connector; is that SFF-8484? http://www.serialata.org/docs/SATA%2...l%202_Gold.pdf |
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