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James, Thanks for your reply. Not sure if I feel like taking a blow torch to my tower case just yet. Have been using the PAR heavily for the past week and no schizophrenic crackup yet. Crossing my fingers. Alan
Jamie, > The drive is the thing that generates the most heat. Not in my system. If the drive were any hotter than the processor chip on the PAR, I'd need a fire extinguisher. Hasn't some one out there invented a mini air conditioner for a computer? Those smart guys…
James, I have three fans goin in my system right now. A three inch blowing on the boards (positioned, incidentally, and fortunately, in line with the PAR), the fan on the Pentium chip, and a four inch on the power supply. All of the chips on the PAR are fine…
I have a fan directly on my PAR board, my tower case open, and the damn thing still runs hot as hell. Any leads on a micro micro air conditioner? Alan
PAR Crash — Once Again
Message #169702
Patrick, Sorry about your file. Yes it is true about Micropolis bailing on the 2217A. Consequently, prices on them are pretty tasty about now. Love my PAR too, and looking forward to the wrinkles being ironed out. Alan
Mark Just found out a little more about the ZIP drive. The parallel port version is indeed slower, about 2-5 times as slow, I hear. The one bummer thing I've heard about the drive so far is the external power supply (big & bulky). I'm told they sell an optional,…
Carlton, Have a Micron P90 tower myself. Very curious about the fan thing, too. One tip about the installation of the board–have fun. You're going to have to put it in the second or third last slot (near the bottom). It's a tight squeeze. I had to move my cards…
Alec, Talked to Gary at DPS on Monday. They're not sure what the problem is, but are at least working on it. He THINKS it may be the software, something to do with corrupted links (?). Being that it's an intermittent, seemingly random event, though, the exact cause may be…
#PC-to-Mac
Message #168959
Mark, As per the ZIP drives, they're put out by the folks at IOMEGA. Both SCSI and Parallel Port versions are available. I hear the parallel port version is significantly slower, though. The SCSI is a bit slower than a hard drive, but pretty good compared to other removable media.…
PAR Crash — Once Again
Message #168718
Alec, Thanks for your speedy reply. 90%! Jesus, that's pretty severe. When 20% crashing seems positive, something is definitely wrong. Doesn't sound like DPS's customer support is all that stellar, either. I'm getting the sense from you and others that they would rather just not deal with any problems that…
#PAR Crash — Once Again
Message #168705
Victor, Thanks for the advice. I'm wondering, is this problem endemic to the 2217A? Don't feel like rolling out the cash for a new drive, but if this is going to keep happening, it'd be worth putting my Micropolis to less strenuous use as a regular old storage drive and…
PC-to-Mac
Message #168704
Andrey, As far as I know, there's nothing out on the market yet that will allow you to mount a Mac-formatted hard drive on your PC. Programs like Mac Access or Conversions Plus will allow you to access Mac floppies, but for lots of Targas I realize that just doesn't…
Andrey, Just faced with this problem myself. Ended up buying a program from Software Architects called Formatter 5. They have a Mac PC Manager init which will allow you to mount a PC formatted SCSI drive (hard drive, Syquest, MO, etc.) on a Mac. As far as I could find…
Alec, Wish I had read your letter a week ago. Had my first schizophrenic PAR breakdown yesterday–chomped nigh everything on my Micropolis 2217a 1.7 gig drive, more or less a gig down the tubes, after optimizing. Is that the same drive you're using? Wish I had made the backups that…
Carlton, I've been doing some PAR research lately, too. Seems DPS and every PAR dealer under the sun, or at least the 15 or so I tried (DPS will give you dealer #'s over the phone) are currently out of stock on the PAR. TBC IV, no problem. The woman…