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I need a prog to do a LLF on a Maxtor 160G drive, preferably without removing the drive from the RAID controller. If necessary, I can pull the drive and connect directly to IDE port on the MB, but if I don't have to go thru that, all the better. Any suggestions, guys?

That's a good idea, if he hasn't also ripped the solder pad from the board. If that's the case, unless you're REAL good with a schematic and a soldering iron, you're OOL.

System: 2 PIII 933's, 2G PC133 ram, 4 sticks. CPU temps in open-air are about 80 degrees F, but the chips on the sticks are averaging about 130 degrees F. Is this normal? Seems to me it wouldn't be, and I've had many problems with this setup crashing and locking. No room for ram coolers...

You might want to consider getting a Dremel Advantage. LOT more power than a regular Dremel, if you can swing the extra cash.

I know that, but there has to be a way to splice it somehow to a standard firewire connector, right? Or would this item do the job for me? http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1457&osCsid=590ed23896364e9bff6a2ed4e8429466

I have an internal FireWire card, 3 external ports, and one internal. All ports are physically identical. I also have a case that has a Firewire plug on the front, with a cable coming off of it that has what appears to be the standard 2x5 10 pin connector, with one corner pin blocked. Looks...

I do know how to use it, and he's used it for 15+ years.....lol

Nice, Dad's got an identical one in the basement at home, still works too!

Just got my order in today from Mouser. The pins are correct, but the connector housings are not correct. Those part numbers correspond to a 4 pin housing that has the corners rounded, instead of having the bottom corners square, and the top corners 45'ed. These connectors can still work...

Thanks man! BTW, for future reference for anyone who might read this thread, www.mouser.com was the only place that I could find that stocked all 4 of the above parts.

I know this has been asked before, and I would have searched, but............. Need a source and part numbers for 4 pin Molex disk drive connectors and crimp pins. Female and male versions, if you have all that information on hand. Thanks!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, a mag-lev mouse pad...........

Now come up with a way to re-flatten the thing when it's about .25 inches out of true flat.........:)

Hate to sound like an ass, but if you're willing to build these amps to spec, why don't you just take an ad out in the Mall-Fi section over at Head-Fi? Unless the rules here have changed, if you don't have it in your hand, you can't sell it here. Advertising a custom amp for sale would then...

Plextor made their mark making industrial strength SCSI cdroms back in the day. I think that quality has carried over into their ATAPI pursuits, as well. Ain't nothin gonna beat an old PlexWriter SCSI. Just nuthin. Back before buffer under run protection and all that shit, when IDE writers...

LMAO, no, haven't had to do any hotswapping, I just went with sleds so it would be easier for me to switch drives in case of a failure. Box is powered down when I swap a drive out.

Well, on both of my other boxes, I run dual supplies with just grn and blk tied together. One PS for the drives, fans, cdroms, etc, and the other PS just powers the motherboard. Is this an OK method? And just why in the hell doesn't this card have delayed spin up option? That's just...

Yeah, but do you really think that the PS is killing these drives? One thing's for sure, tho, next drive I get back from RMA is going to get tested before I throw it into the machine. And at $7 per drive to ship back, this crao is getting expensive.

Yeah, testing the drives on a seperate machine, all "bad" drives fail using PowerMax. How big of a power supply do you think I should be using, then? Do they make one big enough? Or maybe I can "splice" a few PS's together, and split the drives amoungst the two.

Config: 8 Maxtor DiamondMax 160G drives, model # 4R160l0, all mounted in hot swap drive sleds. 3Ware Escalade model 7810. Asus P2B-D, 512M PC133, dual PII 400's. Antec TruePower 400W power supply. The drives are in a RAID5 configuration, with one drive a hot spare, for a total Windows...

Sweet looking case, Evil, but it wouldn't have fit all my drives tho..........Not with the sleds installed, anyways.......hehe

Shit, u fuckers had it good. My high school had the ancient TI-99/4A models. Course, I've been out of high school for 14 years now, but still.............hehehe

http://servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=%3Cfont+size%3D%2B2+color%3Dred%3ELandrover%3C%2Ffont%3E&Category_Code=MS Using this one to house 9 drives with cages. Real nice case for the money! Nice n roomy inside too!

Building a pool table isn't hard. However, I don't care if you are the world's greatest woodworker, that has shit to do with it. Unless you think you can take 2-3 pieces of 3/4 or 1 inch slate, lay them in the table, and seam the joints together PERFECTLY, you've just got a massive...

Why desolder? It's not like you run the risk of ripping internal traces in a multi-layer PCB or anything.........lolol Some Soder-Wick will come in handy here, I think.............:)

Yeah, but the cool factor would be thru the roof.........hehehe

I can see it now............NExt step is to daisy-chain a bunch of those together to make your own huge 128x128 LED screen........hehehe

Just remember, i fyou do go the solder route, most power supplies I've seen group all the wires together by voltage. You'll need a big soldering gun to get that massive solder bridge to melt. A 20W radio shack iron isn't going to cut it, I don't think.

No, he's using a few of the stock MB mounting holes to pass the wires thru. I doubt you could drill a hole anywhere in a MB and still have it work, since most MB's now are at least 4 layer, and probably 6 layer.

Dremel Advantage. Nothing else even comes close to it.

And also people, if you're going to paint in the basement, be VERY careful if you have a gas furnace/hot water tank. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out why.

If you want to use a circular saw to make the cuts, flip the blade over. Trust me on this one.

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As title states, I can't find them anywhere, none that work, anyways. Win2000 hopefully, but W98 might work as well. Hoping someone has a copy lying around somewhere. Thanks!

I don't recall a comparsion anywhere in my reply, just stating what works for me. People buy these OMGWTFLOL super high-wattage PS's, and may not even need them. If you really want to know what you want, add the wattage of all components, and a saftey margin, and go from there.

Most people at this board assume Molex connector means the 4 pin hard drive/cdrom power connector. Molex is in fact a brand name, and covers connectors of many shapes, pin arrangements, and sizes. But 2 needles works for me quite well, just takes a little time and patience.