19th June 2003, 1:26 PM
Yeah, I frequently edit my posts and add stuff after posting them... not hours after or anything, but a little bit after. I do it more since coming to the VBulletin where it only shows one 'edit' tag instead of one for every edit like the UBB did... its much easier and looks better to me... its kind of strange to make a new post, it just confuses everyone (like OB1 did. :) ).
Owch, computer problems.
Uhh... the good news is its a bulletin board so you can access it from any computer? :)
Our older computers' harddrive (our P800) went bad a few years ago... it was the main harddrive (a 40 gig main drive). The secondary 80gb drive worked, though, and the Linux part of the main disc (which is all my dad uses on it) was mostly okay so we didn't fix it for quite some time... but now we're working on it. With a new 80gb HDD that will eventually replace the bad 40... the 40 has bad sectors, you see. Its garbage. :(
Lets just say that installing windows is a pain... and getting all the hardware in that thing to work is very hard. Its not fun at all... that stupid thing is still messed up in windows... :(
Oh, if a HDD is new it probably won't be able to be read by a old motherboard's bus. You see, modern HDD's are often ATA133 drives... while older comps do NOT have 133 buses. For example... the P800 has a ATA66 main bus and neither of our 80gb HDDs can be read when attached to it. We have to use a PCI ATA133-bus card that we've plugged into the computer... it was the only way to get them readable on that comp.
If you had a fast new PCI bus card for IDE devices it would probably fix your problem of attaching that harddrive to old PCs.
Owch, computer problems.
Uhh... the good news is its a bulletin board so you can access it from any computer? :)
Our older computers' harddrive (our P800) went bad a few years ago... it was the main harddrive (a 40 gig main drive). The secondary 80gb drive worked, though, and the Linux part of the main disc (which is all my dad uses on it) was mostly okay so we didn't fix it for quite some time... but now we're working on it. With a new 80gb HDD that will eventually replace the bad 40... the 40 has bad sectors, you see. Its garbage. :(
Lets just say that installing windows is a pain... and getting all the hardware in that thing to work is very hard. Its not fun at all... that stupid thing is still messed up in windows... :(
Oh, if a HDD is new it probably won't be able to be read by a old motherboard's bus. You see, modern HDD's are often ATA133 drives... while older comps do NOT have 133 buses. For example... the P800 has a ATA66 main bus and neither of our 80gb HDDs can be read when attached to it. We have to use a PCI ATA133-bus card that we've plugged into the computer... it was the only way to get them readable on that comp.
If you had a fast new PCI bus card for IDE devices it would probably fix your problem of attaching that harddrive to old PCs.
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