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To: Reseller who wrote (47862)	2/14/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: jwk	Respond to of 58324

Reseller -- Thank you very much for taking the time to share your first hand, professional experience with installing a Sparq. I'd say the thread is wide open for posts from those who have had a positive first hand experience, and who could provide a counterpoint to Re's account. Are you out there, and what do you have to tell us in the way of a rebuttal? Jack

To: Reseller who wrote (47862)	2/14/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re: The pull down front door just gets in the way, to insert the disk you have to deal with it. I can foresee this breaking and unnecessary Been thinking about this door, it just didn't seem to have a purpose . Well if you take the door off you would have a big hole in the drive, the hole accommodates the seating of the disk, without it the drive would contaminate real easy. The Jaz disk tolerances are so tight that the disk itself acts as a seal to prevent contamination. Reseller

To: Reseller who wrote (47862)	2/14/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Milt Best	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Reseller, How long have you been building custom computers? I have built many and the problem you reported could happen between to different hard drives. For instance, I have experienced problems between Maxtor and Western Digital drives where they had to be placed on separate IDE interfaces because they both would not work together on the same IDE interface. Or in some cases, one had to be the master and would not operate as a slave. I just move them into a configuration that works. Some IDE devices just will not work with others on the same interface. I'm not disputing your observation of the SPARQ, just pointing out it can happen with other IDE devices from different manufacturers as well. Milt

To: Reseller who wrote (47862)	2/14/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Reseller, my thanks too for taking the time to post that interesting SparQ experience. Others have noted that some IDE devices, even newer ones, do not always work on both EIDE ports or as slave. My experience confirms that. I have been having problems with my new hardware for months, spending weekends trying new drivers, new configurations, and as a last resort, Dogbert incantations against the demons of stupidity. I just days ago discovered the cure. I'm running Win95 OSR2, a 4 month old version. My 4 month old mobo supports bootable Zip. I have an Atapi Zip, IBM and WDC 6.4GB HD's, and a MagicSpin 20X CDROM. When I configured them thus: Primary port, Master position - IBM HD Primary port, Slave position - Zip Atapi Secondary port, Master position - WDC HD Secondary port, Slave position - CDROM Boot after installing original Win95 driver: the Secondary port device driver was disabled. Boot after installing "bmide_95.exe" Intel driver: the Primary port device driver was disabled. Boot after installing "setupex.exe" Intel 82371xB driver: the Primary port device driver was disabled. I had all but given up hope when it occured to me to switch each port's primary and secondary devices, et viola, it all works now. So now my configuration is: Primary port, Master position - Zip Atapi Primary port, Slave position - IBM HD Secondary port, Master position - CDROM Secondary port, Slave position - WDC HD Running the Intel 82371xB driver, and according to the SYSMON program, I get about 5.4 MB/sec peak transfer rate when copying whole partitions from one HD to the other. Thus I agree with the respondant who said that these days you have to be willing to fiddle with new hardware. My opinion is that PC industry competition is so fierce, it has increased the number of bugs in recent hardware and software compared to 1-2 years ago. Back then, just about anything I installed in my PC worked first time, every time. My guess is, things won't improve until hardware prices stop their free-fall, and return to their historic decline rates.