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To: denni who wrote (89708)	10/7/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"p.s. the ultra dma disk drive is so slow compared to the scsi in my old computer. i was planing to switch drives but all the pci slots are now used on the hp8560c."... A good reason not to buy those off the shelf, minimized inside computers... Jim

To: denni who wrote (89708)	10/7/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: Jean M. Gauthier	Respond to of 186894

Hiya... The problem on these !@#$% advanced technology Ultra-CDMA drives and variable - spin CD's is that they use up to 65% CPU utilization when they are in use and spin up... Also, they "spin down" continually so when you need them, you have to wait 2-3 seconds for either the CD ROM or the Hard Disk to come back... People BLAME Windows or NT but it's these bloody IDE super standards that kill performance on these PC's... So if you buy a crapola Celeron, Imachines or Kdawg62/63 TM P. Engel, or a "free PC", you get what you pay for (slow like molasses in January..........)... Hello now, even high-end PC's are having trouble keep up with these IDE and Ultra-DMA standards.... CPU utilization on a SCSI Drive with card is about 1-3%, because all processing is done on the SCSI card, off-loaded from the CPU.... IDE, the CPU does it all... I miss my SCSI Box.... Take care Jean P.S. I have 1 SCSI server left, with SCSI devices and IDE deactivated, and it's an overclocked 442Mhz Celeron 300A. It's fast on SPIN-UP than My Ultra-DMA PII 500. Take care Jean

To: denni who wrote (89708)	10/8/1999 3:10:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Denni - Re: ", finally i have two high speed internet connected computers. it took about 6 hours and four different ms support techs to get me up and running. the biggest problem was getting win98 to autoconfigure the ip addresses correctly. the trick was to disable one of the ethernet cards to get the local network running first. after that, the rest was a piece of cake." Whoa ! AnyPOINT was a lot easier for me to install. Anyway, I hope your systems areup and running and doing well for you. Paul