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).

Ok, the good news is that after you came over with your 1542B and
then went away with your 1542B, since I had the machine open I
thought "there's no way that my old motherboard, which was created
when no-one had heard of EIDE, only IDE, is going to handle the
2 meg drive, no matter what Rod says, and anyhow, even if it did,
there's no way OS/2 would be happy with it" and promptly went about
to prove the point.

Anyway, after speaking to Rod on the phone, who told me I needed to
set the jumpers to make it a slave (Rod is a VERY useful person to
have around, believe you me), I ended up with 2 IDE drives in my
system, my old C drive, and my new 2.5 gig, with 2 main partitions,
one HPFS 500 meg partition with all the stuff from my old D drive,
and one 2 gig HPFS partition with all the stuff from my old E drive.

I thus now have an Adaptec 2842VL sitting in a box (wrong box), 
which you can pick up AFTER I have done my upgrade of motherboard.
The reason being, I actually now have every single drive backed
up twice.  All backed up on to my new IDE.

I tell you what, this new IDE is a hell of a lot quiter than my old
SCSI monster.

I am pretty happy at the moment.  Quiet drives make me happy.  My
bloody Viper makes a racket though, have to switch of M0... done.
Now we'll see what happens.

So where was I?  Oh, being happy.  Maybe I should take a photo or
something, it's pretty rare that I'm happy.

Anyway, despite all you guys telling me there was no way it could
possibly work, and I'm sure to fuck everything up, I did pretty
well with this changeover.

Soon I'll have to investigating getting the SCSI into my Amiga.
Mainly to find out whether I am meant to keep the SCSI cable or
give it to you.  It depends whether cables belong to drives or
controllers.  To do that I need to see what the Amiga looks like.

Even the motherboard doesn't look too daunting anymore!

Anyway, must skip the country.  It is totally and utterly disgusting
paying $495 for a 2.4 gig drive.  Frank, this drive is 2440 meg,
which is 2.55 billion bytes.  It's so absolutely disgusting that I
might buy another one sometime.  You can never be too disgusting.

BFN.  Paul.

P.S. Nope, even with M0, it clicks when it answers, instead of the
way the Netcomm didn't even softly whisper.
@EOT:

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