29 May 15 21:33, you wrote to me:

 EV>> Is there any place on the internet that You can give me to learn about
 EV>> SCSI stuff?

 ml>> i'm sure there is but i don't know of anything off the top...
 ml>> what do you want to learn about it?

 EV> What would cause a extra device number to appear sometimes on the
 EV> Advansys card display of devices when I'm booting the XP box?????????

hahaha... i shudda knowed :)

 EV>> Off the top of my head I think the Adapter is made by Advance.
 EV>> Thanks.

 EV> I was close enuf on the name, wasn't I?

ya done good, grasshopper :)

 EV> I know close is not enough as far as a computer is concerned, One
 EV> Misplaced BIT and BANG!!!!!!!!!! Nothing works.

true!

 ml>> ok and no problem :)

 EV>> ... Its a fine line between fishing and standing still

 ml>> i've got one similar to that... it says "sitting" instead of
 ml>> "standing" ;)

 EV> The Virtual Clone Drive software also shows up with the Advansys SCSI
 EV> card when I looked at the Hardware Manager.
 EV> And that "Drive" isn't mentioned when I am looking at the
screen when
 EV> I start this computer.
 EV> I see it in Windows Explorer, that's all.

right, virtual clone is a software package and it isn't running until after
the OS loads... you can't see it from bootup because it doesn't exist at
that point... generally you'll see the MB diags or splash screen (to hide
all that stuff) and then the scsi... you might even see a video
initialization screen or notice in there some where...

 EV> I could Remove the Virtual Clone Drive since I never have found any
 EV> need for it. It was just one of those utilities I heard about the
 EV> first year or two that I had this XP box, that I thought that I might
 EV> need.......

i heard of it a long time back but i've never needed it... i think a friend
used it for some games or something that required the CD to be in the drive
while playing... he didn't want to take a chance of damaging the CD
(scratches) so he went the route of a virtual thing to hold the CD image so
the game would run with that instead...

)\/(ark

... Breaded, deep fried, disgusting chicken-compound things.
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