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To: tanstfl who wrote (14176)	12/21/2000 9:01:57 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

steve, thanks for the DMA heads up. i made the adjustment to the setting on my system. now i'm trying to see if it's really running better. it'll take some time, and i'm heading out for awhile. :) mark

To: tanstfl who wrote (14176)	12/21/2000 9:53:33 PM
From: tanstfl	Respond to of 110652

As long as I'm in a garrulous mood I'll mention this past weekend's fun project. I had Win2KPro set up on the NEC Z1 with a 13 Gig IBM drive, Win2KPro on a Dell 800 with a 30 Gig hard drive, Win2kServer on a home built PII 266 with a 10 Gig IDE boot drive and a fast-wide scsi raid card with 3 9 Gig drives RAID0 striped, WinME on another home built PII 266 with dual 4 gig fast wide SCSI drives, and then a spare 10 GIG and 2 spare 20 Gig IDE drives on the shelf. Anyway, my son (who lives with my ex) wanted to upgrade his PII 400 WinME home built(ie swap it for my Dell). I also just bought the Redhat linux 7.0. He had a 20 Gig drive partitioned as 2 10 gig partitions, while the Dell was partitioned as an 8/22 GIG setup. I wanted to end up with: PII 400 with 20 Gig IDE and RAID Array and Win2K Server. PIII 800 with 30 Gig IDE with Son's WinME. PII 266 with 10 GIG/13 GIG IDE and WinME PII 266 with 20 GIG IDE/dual 4 GIG wide scsi and Linux NEC Z1 with 20 GIG IDE and WIN2K Pro. I only wanted to do a fresh Linux install and just transfer the remaining OS's between drives. My first task was to change the 10/10 partitions on the 20 gig drive to 6/14 gig partitions since the D-drive on the 30 had 13 Gig of MP3s that were already programmed into media player 7. I had to upgrade my Partition Magic 5 to Partition Magic 6 to install it into WinME. Went to their Web set, plugged in my serial number, and 20 minutes later and $35 poorer I had the update downloaded (42 Meg). Installed and worked perfectly (Once I eliminated a Macafee Save and Store virtual drive that was causing a page fault and crash). Even let me change the cluster size from 8K to 4K for increased storage efficiency. I then created a Norton Ghost boot floppy, removed the 13 Gig IDE from the Z1, plugged it and a spare 20 in the PII 266 with Dual 4 gig scsi and had Ghost do a disk to disk copy (13 Gig source to 20 Gig destination). Plugged the 20 into the NEC Z1 to verify it, and then put the 10 gig in its place and copied onto other spare 20. Copied the two 4 gig SCSI drives to the 10 and 13, took out the SCSIs and verified the 10/13 setup. Then I plugged sons WinME 20 into the Dell to copy onto the 30 (Had previously copied all needed data from the 30 to the NEC Z1). No go - out of memory error. Went to Symantec knowledge base and found fix (this is apparently a problem with Win2k); added "-ws- -wd-" as parameters and did copy. Verified that WinME could function on the Dell and put son's 20 Gig drive into the PII 266 along with the two 4 Gig scsi drives for Linux. Assembled PII 400 with 20 Gig Win2K Server drive and SCSI Raid array and wouldn't you know it, the only copy I hadn't verified was the one that gave me an invalid system disk error. No big deal since there was no unique data on it. Every other copy worked perfect so I'm left wondering if there is a problem copying Win2K server or if it was just the luck of the draw. This is a tedious read for those familiar with it; but I have always done a complete re-install in the past in a situation like this and I was amazed at how much quicker and easier this is.