Finally have my system totally setup properly 
again after both hardware crash and software invasion
by the Klez.H worm!!!
Class A: goof on my part thinking I didn't configure the 
replacement motherboard correctly what I had done was FAR
more stupid :-(
In the course of replacing all the software on the drive I 
recovered from a discarded system I replaced the existing 
Win 3.11 and DOS 6.20 with my legal copies of Win 3.1 and 
DOS 5.0... or so I thought.
Well I did in fact reload DOS 5.0 but I forgot to delete 
6.20 first :-(
So this was what was locking up system information diagnostic
software. I went looking after finding it odd dosshell 
would freeze after loading. Protocols are in place to detect and 
prevent the transmission of reinfection by another worm, there were
a dozen incarnations of that worm in my inbox this week
but I defeated reinfection by taking measures.
Damned Klez.H infects Win 3.1 and 3.11 in a way that defies
detection by f-prot and certain other free tools either
because this O.S. doesn't support long file names, F-Prot,
and thus the registry keys are truncated and go unidentified
or freeware tools to remove are unavailable for this 16 
bit O.S.
Hey I've even got the two modems working in concert, the external for
internet, telnet, FTP and the internal voice modem for my
software answering machine and they are both connected to the phone line
at once with the proper software assigned to each! 
Even without going DSL there's a device on the market I've
heard of that can suspend an internet session keeping the existing
hookup live while answering the phone, this would be way kool
with the speakerphone and answering machine software!
I could be surfing, the device detects an incoming voice call,
I screen it allowing the 1 minute message to be recorded
as a .WAV file and than continue my online session
or alternatlly answer the phone with the option of retaining
the net connection or logging off!
The power saver features in CMOS do not interfere with the answering 
machine as the drive spins up on ring!!!
All this on a lowly 486 running Windows 3.1, just wait until I
move back into Linux with more dedication.
I've heard the last stable Mandrake release was 7 as 
there are claims the package installation and removal
software was munged in a later release, don't know about 
the last stable Debian, Redhat and Slackware releases are
but I'm getting really close to ordering CD's of them all 
merely waiting until I purchase a new large drive and get the 
Pentium up and running.
Probably start with Mandrake as I hear it runs out of the box
so to speak, familiarize myself than move on to Slackware
which to my understanding is more open to tinkering for individual
personal preferences.

Finally got round to sending you the jumper setting e-mail
for the Adaptec 1540 and I bookmarked a Linux tutorial 
page regarding the use of that card in the Linux O.S. 
however there is FAR too much information in many many links for me to
practically retreive and send them to you.
Sorry I haven't yet found a .jpg image to go with the jumper listing.
Oh yeah that new motherboard I was so hot on after further examination
is lacking in some regards for my application, it only supports one
EIDE drive in RAID 0 though it might be more interesting to you
as the Promise Tech. I/O card _does_ support SCSI.
Currently there are about three motherboards that look promising,
Asus, Epox and Gigabyte with the Gigabyte supporting the AMD
processor. Not sure that I'm ready to go SCSI yet as it's still
a high ticket item due to the lack of market share and
economic advantages inherent in mass volume sales :-(
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