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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 18, 2007 9:17:42 GMT -5
Nice to see that conventional mail still works... at least there i don't receive penis enlargements, cheap v1agra, and discount OEM software... Yet another HD was replaced: the SV0842D is clean, and i only needed 2 hours to move the Linux from the faulty 4-gig to this new 8-gig drive. The first time is always a pain (first Linux moving, first Win95 install on a 386...), but the second time is always a breeze. Audio ripping projects are going fine, and a lot of Loki episodes are stacking there, waiting for edition... This will be another of those boring weeks  |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 19, 2007 14:12:53 GMT -5
OK, here are the photos of the latest loot: - The SSF manual (someone read it before i got the envelope in my hands, because the seal was broken... Do customs agents play SSF in their "spare" time?), and the new Samsung drive for Saki. Yes, that was a good hunting session:  - Another view of the SSF manual: Wow, that's what i call a good spare! Mine looks like a crashed 1986 Ford Sierra ;D:  WARNING: G33k p0rn!  Actually, Samsung porn!  Don't try to look for the RAM chip: there is no such thing! Instead, the 512K cache seems to be integrated into the odd SEC processor. In 2000 that was plain crazy, and even today, the only HD manufacturer that integrates RAM into the CPU is Seagate (with their Agere (now LSI Logic) and ST CPUs), and it does only with some Barracuda models. It's expensive or what? I still dream with a single-chip HD controller (CPU+RAM+EPROM+combo), but it seems that this thing will never happen (in part, because the combo chip do run quite HOT!) The drive feels fast, but Saki still needs 5 minutes to boot (in part, due to an endless udev boot time) Anyway, a free drive is a free drive! And it's not a MaxCrap!  |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Oct 19, 2007 16:04:47 GMT -5
It's why we have to pay so much import tax - The SSF Tax...  OMG LOL! ;D |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 20, 2007 19:17:07 GMT -5
OK, i don't want even think about the pr0n tax and the manga tax ;D Anyway, classes just started this week, and when 50% of your professors are ghosts, you will need one of these while you're waiting:  You should not watch TV on your university computer lab, did you know? ;D ;D ;D (unless you're attending some odd art/draw course, but surely "Galaxy Angel", "Lost Technology" or "beef sukiyaki" will not be valid answers in the next quiz  ). Oh, that's an IBM box (an 2001 NetVista), with (a badly configured) Debian Etch, and a Quantum Fireball VQ Maxtor DiamondMax D740X that it's sane despite the heat and the abuse... talking about odd drives... That lab contains 60% D740Xs, 30% IBM DeathStars (mostly 120 and 180GXP, and ONE 60GXP that is STILL ALIVE!), and a couple of Seagate Barracudas. Damn, hard drives are driving me crazy! Someone should make an anime/manga/reality show/videogame about these stuff... "Drive Me Crazy" "A Momentus Of Pain" "Martian Eliminator Maxtor" "Spin Point" (and its sequel/spinoff: "Spin Point: Voyager Advance") "Mommy, There Is A Platter In My Pajamas!" and the killer title of the season: "Death Click" ;D EDIT: OK, someone did it before me... and for the Atari 2600?!? |
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Post by evildragon on Oct 21, 2007 12:35:51 GMT -5
I got one of those Samsung drives (from your other post).
They can be picky at times, atleast mine was, and always wanted an 80 conductor IDE cable, even if I was only running it in PIO mode. (for older computers)
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 21, 2007 12:55:01 GMT -5
My SV0432A (the one that failed) ALWAYS wanted to run as master, NEVER as slave (if you plug it as slave, it will not be recognized!!?). The SV2042H sometimes throws errors when working with it, but the drive always pass any surface scan, and there are no bad/remapped sectors. The SV4012H is painfully slow! (slower than my older SV2042H by 50%). And my new MP0603H clicks from time to time... It seems that Samsung only make hard drives because they can afford it, not because they hear the market, or because they want to do... For example: there was a batch of 250GB SATA laptop drives that required a FIRMWARE UPDATE because they came with a very buggy one. Since when you need to flash a hard drive? And, for make it worse, most of these drives were shipped in MacBooks... the most user-unfriendly platform to flash a drive  And their highly-expected 1TB drive is delayed until the release of Duke Nukem Forever (or at least until the next year)... Anyway, that's the "Samsung way(r)"... ;D Their cellphones are nice, but their software sucks, their optical drives were good, but the recent ones are pure crap.... but they make shitloads of money with that. |
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Post by Tulio Adriano on Oct 22, 2007 13:54:07 GMT -5
I never had issues with any Samsung HD. I have some drives running since last century and I never had any problem.
Curiously, those HDs who failed me were a 1 GB Quantum (complete failure) and a Seagate (Failed, then recover after I dropped it on the ground).
I don't remember what are my actual drives now (80, 120, 160 and 250 GBs) but I believe they are either Seagate, Samsung or Maxtor.
I had also their optical units... one was a DVD-ROM... sometimes it doesn't input the tray on the button touch... but it works ok once you push it...
But no question their monitors and TVs are the best EVER!
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 22, 2007 15:31:21 GMT -5
I second that! My next TV will be either a flat tube Samsung or LG. I'm bored of those no-name brands built in China, so i need something that it's NOT made in China... Also Korea seems to be a nice place to live along that hi-tech stuff... Want to be a Samsung/LG betatester? Move to Korea and enjoy ;D (i saw that yesterday on CNN). At least, with Samsung HDs you have the warranty that your drive will come from Korea, and ONLY KOREA. If you pickup a Seagate (for example), it may come from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, or... ew... China Want a japanase Deskstar? Such thing no longer exists |
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Oct 22, 2007 19:49:45 GMT -5
The following statement MUST be said... LG Monitors FOOKIN' KICK A$$! Nuff Said! ;D |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Oct 27, 2007 21:28:48 GMT -5
PC133? Had you to sell your house or one of your kidneys for get it? PC133 RAM is EXTREMELY RARE to find in the wild over here, so it likes to go way too expensive... PC133 memory over here is easy to find and pretty cheap, my 512M stick was $20. In fact I have a whole static bag full of 256 and 128M sticks of both PC100 and 133, good for backup on my older machines. I don't see how you have such bad luck with hard drives, i found two SCSI drives in the middle of the road that had been crushed by a bus, a 18 wheeler rig and several cars and one of them still worked with little problems. It was funny seeing what was on them, the entire thing was maxed out with porn and other warez things. Maybe trying to hide evidence from the wife >.> |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 27, 2007 23:48:38 GMT -5
Here in Puerto Ordaz is very common to find amateur porn DVD-Rs on the roadways... Really bad releases, i must say I would trash'em too, and not waste my time (and my blank DVD+/-Rs). SCSI with warez? Maybe from some disbanded BBS  |
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Oct 28, 2007 3:54:45 GMT -5
I'd trash any sort of DVD-R if someone gave it to me, those things suck hard. Now on the other hand I'd take handouts of DVD+Rs any day of the week.
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Post by paulpsomiadis on Oct 28, 2007 18:27:27 GMT -5
Each type of DVD recordable discs have their use...
For instance DVD+R (and DVD+R DL) is the only thing that the XBOX 360 will read...not DVD-R.
Whereas The Playstation 2 will only read DVD-R.
Oh and it doean't matter WHICH type you use as long as its a good brand!
TRAXDATA, Verbatim, Maxell, Octron - all use RITEK dye...NICE!
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Oct 28, 2007 19:11:06 GMT -5
Each type of DVD recordable discs have their use... For instance DVD+R (and DVD+R DL) is the only thing that the XBOX 360 will read...not DVD-R. Whereas The Playstation 2 will only read DVD-R. Oh and it doean't matter WHICH type you use as long as its a good brand! TRAXDATA, Verbatim, Maxell, Octron - all use RITEK dye...NICE! Actually it DOES matter which type of DVD that you use. On many DVD burners, DVD-Rs burn MUCH slower than DVD+Rs. My previous DVD burner burned DVD-Rs at 1x to 2x while it burned DVD+Rs at 8x to 9x. Needless to say, if you like waiting 9 hours for a DVD to burn, you can go with the -Rs, but I don't care to wait that long. My new DVD burner burns DVD+Rs at 16x to 18x, though I don't know how fast -Rs will go (it states the same speed, but I don't trust it.) |
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Oct 28, 2007 20:19:07 GMT -5
My current TSSTcrap burner (a slim TS-L632D) does burn up to 8X, but my DVD-R media only burns at 6X. I have no problems with DVD+R(W), it does burn at 8X, quickly and (almost) reliable. I only had two coasters with this burner: a DVD that Nero failed to close (and it's only readable in that burner!), and another that failed at 85% under K3B (some of those odd ATA errors on the kernel that happen under some random and rare conditions). Most of the media that you can find there are those crappy Matrix DVDs, but i've been very lucky: i can't found them anywhere! Instead, i burn onto cheap Imation (Mitsubishi Chemicals) and Maxell (Ricoh) media. As for DVD+RW: i can only find Memorex media, and it's a big PoS (it wears out after 10 uses?!?!) In other news, i have finally dissasemblied my old PCCRAP M755 box: it needs new caps (9 of those 1500uF, 6.3V, low-ESR aluminium thingies), and i'm thinking seriously to replace'em, to add another box to the farm (a Celeron 700 is pure crap, but for Linux it's OK). Hell, i even have a new case for it, and a tentative name: "Kotaro" (like the one from Pita-Ten). As for the caps: some moron is selling them on MercadoLibre... at $2 the piece! For comparison, DigiKey do carry them at about 20 cents the part, so another quest begins... Hopefully, the lab may have some spares... It's safe to replace 1500uF with 1000uF caps? |
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