CompuServe Messages

Rob, I took the final step in configuring my system before trying to add the SCSI stuff. I removed the partition from my 360 Mb IDE drive. I had to call a friend before I could get the drive to format after repartitioning it. He pulled out the DOS book! <g> I tried to SYS the drive then format it, but it would only work with the /S switch in the FORMAT command. This guy has a sign RTFM on his office wall. By golly, he practices what he preaches. My interest in computing is what I can do with it, not how you get it to do it! I am about to loose all of my remaining marbles when it comes to graphics adapter cards. I was zeroing in on an Orchid P9000/VLB, but the literature they sent me contains a review saying their drivers aren't finished. I called Diamond about their VIPER VL and they said I should buy it frome a store that has a good return policy, as it might not work with my off shore motherboard. AAaarrrgggg!!! (Haven't I said that recently?) Remodelling my house wouldn't help shorten SCSI cable lengths. Im set up in a living room with plenty of space. The space constraint is how I arrange stuff around me. If I could sit in a Yoga position the cable length problem would go away. I'll send you a .BMP of my setup when this all (strike 'all') settles down. I followed the threads in NT up until the March beta was released. Then it seemed that my system was too limited in resources to bother with it. Now that I'm building it up it's time to eavesdrop again. I think I'll do that from work. (Yes, they got me a CIS account there!) I met Bob Chronister in the Micrografx section of the GRAPHVEN forum. (Hi, Bob <g>!) We've been discussing MGX Picture Publisher and graphics adapter cards. I'll check with him in WINNT. If you meet Bob in WINNT, give him a <cg>, which is a Chronister grin- fast becoming famous on the service! I read a message where a guy gained a lot of disk space dropping partition size from really big to under 512K partitions. He said he went from 16K sectors to 8K ones and gained 50 Mb on a 1.2 Gb drive. Another guy said the sector size was 32k at 1 Gb. ??? I have a BIG dilemma. To use the BusLogic adapter with a SCSI hard drive where there is an IDE boot drive in the system, I either have to disable the adapter BIOS or not. The BT-445S book and three users tell me to keep the BIOS enabled. BusLogic tech support in writing, however, says to disable the BIOS. I'm going with the numbers. I would advise scanning the horizon, but with the clouds and rain you're sending this way, I think it would be obscured! <g> Dave McKeen