Dan, JW, Howard, thanks for the Tiger link and followup. They are offering refurbed P810s for 699.99. I bit and I'll provide some feedback as the order progresses.
P.S. TS-Horse progress: have made six orders (including Tiger this am), have 5 confirmations, 1 delivery (Mushkin), 4 UPS tracking numbers (Axion: 2; Aberdeen: 1 [likely partial]; Clifford: 1), waiting on more info from Global, and just started with Tiger. Maybe those people in purchasing actually DO earn their money... <g>
Hope to at least begin building this weekend. May have to borrow pieces from existing systems to make progress - borrowing a video card and a monitor will let me install an OS and do a burn-in.
IDE1/IDE2 question: I've got a 7.6g HD and a 3.2G HD to install along with a cdrom. HD7.6 looks like 4 partitions: Win98, apps/data, backup-WinNT, partitionX. HD3.2 looks like 2 partitions: WinNT production/mainOS, backup apps/data. My question is how to cable. The bios/mb manual suggests some mysterious degradation occurs with the cdrom on the same ide controller as the HD. So which cable config is best?
config1:
ide1 - HD3.2/master, CDROM/slave
ide2 - HD7.6/master
Config2:
ide1 - HD3.2/master
ide2 - HD7.6/master, CDROM/slave
Config3:
ide1 - HD3.2/master, HD7.6/slave
ide2 - CDROM/slave
I'm leaning to config1. But I don't fully understand the CDROM degredation. Is it only when using the CDROM? Or does it limit settings for the controller? I'm looking at page B-4 (appendix B) of the BH6 User's manual. They recommend putting the CDROM on ide2 by itself with the 2 HDs on IDE1. But I'll mostly use the CDROM only for installs - it will likely be idle during trading hours, wouldn't I realize an advantage to having my OS (WinNT) on ide1 and my app (tradestation) on ide2 during trading hours?
Thanks, Paul |
