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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (3273)	10/28/1998 6:39:00 PM
From: jw	Respond to of 14778

Dan, I have purchased from Tiger for about 5 years. Never a problem. Straight Shooters!.Based in Miami. Just a minute ago I ordered (phone), 3 Super Disks/Carrying case/6 Backup titles ($29.99), Super Disk controller card for older computer w/bios, ($34.99), Freight $9.24. Overnight delivery Airborn. Any order called in by 9:30pm et under 5 lb. in stock will ship tonight. Regards, /jw

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (3273)	10/28/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

I know who they are, but never bought from them. Anyone have any experience with Tiger? Over the years I have made several purchases from Tiger Direct and don't have any bad experiences to report. I did notice though the prices Tiger Direct were advertising on 17 inch monitors were quite similar to the prices Armadillo Brothers had posted last week. Hence I doubt if the great price Street Walker got in August on 21 inch monitors are still available.

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (3273)	10/29/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

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