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10-08-2002, 04:45 AM
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| Watercooled Wizard. Eek..  Join Date: May 2002
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| One more thing I've been wondering about with WD's disk with 8mb cache is how they do in a raid setup....  |
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10-08-2002, 04:49 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Antwerp
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| Hm I was thinking of the power supply as well ... Anyway I can check this ? I don't know the brand, it has 350W I have 2 disks, 2 cdroms and 1 case fan. Do you think it would help if I plugged in the third aux power plug on the Mobo ? G |
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10-08-2002, 04:50 AM
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| Watercooled Wizard. Eek.. Join Date: May 2002
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| You can always try.... hm, but now we're truly off topic... Hm, maybe you should start a new thread.. |
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10-08-2002, 04:58 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Antwerp
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| Indeed we are way out of line. i already have already a similar thread started in Memory maybe we can continue there .... http://www.asusboards.com/forums/sho...threadid=25642 |
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10-11-2002, 03:41 AM
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| Wow this disk scared the **** out of me last night ! I hooked it up to a spare IDE cable and an IDE cdrom(WD800JS master; cd:slave), booted from winXP CD installed it and turned off the pc. I removed my old disks, installed the new one (without the cdrom) and pressed the power button : NOTHING HAPPENED !! (Sweat breaking out, what did I do wrong ?!?) Took the whole system apart again, installed the old disk removed all unnecessary devices still nothing ! After a while I saw that I had pulled the cable from the powerswitch to the board (STUPID!!). Plugged it back in and the system booted. So I installed everything again, booted the system and .... A friendly voice told me : "NO IDE HARDDISKS DETECTED" *** ??!?!  Took the whole lot apart again, tried the other IDE slot, other cable ... Still nothing. After beating my head against the wall, I had a moment of clarity. And hooked the cd back to the IDE cable. result : harddisk detected.  Put the jumper to cable select, removed the cdrom and it still detected it At last my WD800JB was running and very fast I must say. Only the installation took me a bit longer than expected !! G |
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10-11-2002, 06:14 AM
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| ????????????????  Join Date: Feb 2001
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|  Congrats, WD jumper settings are slightly different than other hdd. , they like to confuse you with that.But these are the best hard drives you can get. |
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