re: Moving stuff from Windows 98 to Vista
Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 9:00 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|There used to be a change in hard drive connection systems every 2 years
| dhm
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Way, WAY back when.
|(MSM
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MFM (Multi-Frequency Modulation)
|and RLL were a couple old ones)
|but things have been standardized on IDE for about 10 years.
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...and IDE == ARLL (Advanced Run Length Limited)
For a while, SCSI looked like the Great White Hope;
advancements in platter densities and interface speeds soon made it unnecessary.
|I also forgot to say that there is almost always a jumper diagram on a hard drive
|which shows how to configure it as a slave drive.
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So YOU'RE the one who's getting all of those. 8-)
|In one case[...]the sticker was oriented backwards
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>8-| Grrrr. Thanks, guys.
|If you ever see an old 486 computer thrown out, there are a few recoverable items.
|[...]mounting screws. I don't know what the thread specs are for them[...]
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The ones I have encountered have been 6-32.
All the Mongolian ones must be going to Florida. 8-)
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