On (03 May 96) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



KR> what do you want for the 2842 (and i could arrange a loan of a 1542 that

KR> would plug into an isa slot of your new motherboard for data transfer).



 PE> Ok, the good news is that after you came over with your 1542B and

 PE> then went away with your 1542B, since I had the machine open I

 PE> thought "there's no way that my old motherboard, which was created

 PE> when no-one had heard of EIDE, only IDE, is going to handle the

 PE> 2 meg drive, no matter what Rod says, and anyhow, even if it did,

 PE> there's no way OS/2 would be happy with it" and promptly went about

 PE> to prove the point.



good. nothing ventured nothing gained.



 PE> Anyway, after speaking to Rod on the phone, who told me I needed to

 PE> set the jumpers to make it a slave (Rod is a VERY useful person to

 PE> have around, believe you me),



true, but i don't need any ballast just now (:



 I ended up with 2 IDE drives in my

 PE> system, my old C drive, and my new 2.5 gig, with 2 main partitions,

 PE> one HPFS 500 meg partition with all the stuff from my old D drive,

 PE> and one 2 gig HPFS partition with all the stuff from my old E drive.



sounds reasonable.



 PE> I thus now have an Adaptec 2842VL sitting in a box (wrong box),

 PE> which you can pick up AFTER I have done my upgrade of motherboard.

 PE> The reason being, I actually now have every single drive backed

 PE> up twice.  All backed up on to my new IDE.



s'alright, but a weekday is best, if you have some off, north ryde to

your place is a lot easier than berowra to there.



 PE> I tell you what, this new IDE is a hell of a lot quiter than my old

 PE> SCSI monster.



yes,when i retired my old 5.25" 330meggers, i didn't need to wear

earmuffs in the study any more. (:



 PE> So where was I?  Oh, being happy.  Maybe I should take a photo or

 PE> something, it's pretty rare that I'm happy.



catch it while you can (:



 PE> Anyway, despite all you guys telling me there was no way it could

 PE> possibly work, and I'm sure to fuck everything up, I did pretty

 PE> well with this changeover.



not me brother, i think that anybody that can't do a simple hardware

upgrade is a fuckwit of the first order and should be put out of their

misery in the most painful way possible (:



 PE> Soon I'll have to investigating getting the SCSI into my Amiga.

 PE> Mainly to find out whether I am meant to keep the SCSI cable or

 PE> give it to you.  It depends whether cables belong to drives or

 PE> controllers.  To do that I need to see what the Amiga looks like.



you can keep the cable, i  have several.



 PE> Anyway, must skip the country.  It is totally and utterly disgusting

 PE> paying $495 for a 2.4 gig drive.  Frank, this drive is 2440 meg,

 PE> which is 2.55 billion bytes.  It's so absolutely disgusting that I

 PE> might buy another one sometime.  You can never be too disgusting.



time to start saving for a seagate 27 gig unit (:



                        Keith





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