If the IDE drive you plan to install into a 2163 Enclosure is already formatted for your operating system, you will not need to format the drive before you install it. You can simply install the drive and begin using it right away. (Follow the instructions in the User's Guide.) If your IDE drive is NOT formatted, follow the insructions in the User's Guide to properly install the drive and then format it.

No software of any sort can truly low-level format today's modern drives. The ability to low-level format hard drives was lost back in the early 1990's when disc surfaces began incorporating factory written "embedded servo data". If you have a very old drive that can truly be low-level reformatted, SpinRite v5.0 will do that for you (which all v6.0 owners are welcome to download and run anytime).

No. All AcomData Drives are pre-formatted at the factory with the FAT32 file system, making them truly plug and play for most supported platforms.

AcomData 2163 External Hard drive Enclosures are compatible with most Windows PCs and Macintosh computers. For Windows PCs you will need a computer with a minimum 233 MHz Pentium (or equivalent processor, such as Celeron, AMD etc.), running Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, or XP. For Macintosh you will need a Power Macintosh running Mac OS 9.x or OS 10.x.

For USB 2.0 on Windows 98SE, you will need to install the USB 2.0 driver found on the supplied USB 2.0 Installation CD. The driver is also available for download on this page. All other supported operating systems have the necessary USB 2.0 driver built in, with the exception of Mac OS 9, which supports USB 1 but not USB 2.0. You can connect the drive to a USB 1 port, but it will operate at USB 1 speeds (up to 12 Mbps).

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.

The IDEDOS created for the IDE64 interface, is similar to DOS for the 1541 floppy drive. Except this, you can create subdirectories without number or capacity restrictions (only capacity of the harddrive is the limit).

In computing, there is never enough space on your existing hard drive. As applications take up more space and with video editing, digital photography, and digital music becoming more popular, there is an increased need for hard drive storage. A hard drive enclosure kit allows you to replace your existing hard drive with a larger capacity drive and recycle your old drive for external storage. External storage kits are also popular for mobile computing.

No Officially, the word from Dell is "no", and further investigation reveals that the 400SC uses the ICH5 (82810EB) southbridge, as shown in this picture. The Intel data sheet confirms that RAID support is only available on the ICH5R (82810ER) chipsets. Additionally, the BIOS only shows the option to enable/disable SATA, no RAID configuration. Also, Intel's Application Accelerator is not supported by the 400SC's chipset. It has become a RAID only utility.

Ide ATAPI tape drives work with Linux using scsi-emulation -- forget about using the ide-tape module. Most kernels out of the box do not have scsi-emulation set up since it conflicts with other tape drive support. You have to configure and compile a kernel with a particular group of seemingly un-related things turned on and others turned off. It does work and work well *IF* you get it right. Thanks to a posting by Timothy Moore (timothymoore@bigfoot.

the eSATA drive runs full time with the Tivo Series3, we recommend members select drives certified by the manufacturer for 24/7 operation. Standard desktop drives work just as well in many cases, but buying a drive certified for 24/7 operation provides more assurance of long-term reliability. Ultimately, one must decide whether they are willing to pay a premium for extra 'peace of mind.' Some drives are specifically marketed for DVR use.

Answer: Please see our water and electrical diagrams before installing a steam shower or see the Specs before installing a Shower Enclosure. We recommend that you have your unit delivered before beginning any preparations or making changes to your plumbing or electric.

When you get the file, insert a blank floopy in your drive and launch the program, it's going to be prepared A menu is displayed, choose the second entry (with CD-ROM coverage, this allows too to access the "Format" command).

Unlike for the older proprietary drives, there isn't a specific driver for each model of ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drives. All drives conforming to the standard should work with the ATAPI CD-ROM driver included in the standard Linux kernel. You may be running into an issue with hardware that does not support DMA (Direct Memory Access). RedHat ships a highly tuned version of the Linux kernel which enables DMA on selected IDE controller chipsets. Information on this issue can be found at http://www.

The installer includes support for generic IDE devices, CDROMs connected via an Adaptec SCSI interface, and CDROMs connected via USB. If your drive doesn't fit into any of these categories, then the installer also includes the ability to use a driver you provide (although in many cases finding a USB CDROM drive will be easier than finding a driver . . .).

Yes, if the source disk is bootable on multiple machines, then it's DPSR drive is bootable on the same machines. Windows usually locks it's installation to the system it was originally installed on, so moving an installation to a different machine usually results in Windows not booting correctly. We believe this to be an excellent way to quickly and easily carry your "work" back and forth from the office to the home.

A12. Usually, yes. EIDE CD-ROM drives are often misunderstood. Some articles and technical documents may refer to EIDE as the Attached AT Peripheral Interface (ATAPI). First, the typical EIDE CD-ROM drive operates entirely through a software driver in CONFIG.SYS, bypassing the system BIOS completely. So a BIOS upgrade is not required to support an EIDE CD-ROM drive.

The external HP IDE drives need their own drivers to be loaded to operate properly. These drivers will enable the operating system to correctly identify the drive and the IDE/EIDE port it is using, thus enabling NovaBACK to work properly. These necessary drivers should have been provided with the drive or you'll need to contact HP for them.

If you do not have a regular 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive installed, then go into the BIOS, Standard CMOS Setup, and set "Floppy Drive A:" to Not Installed. Next, also in Standard CMOS Setup, you need to set the drive type to FLOPTICAL. For example, if the LS-120 drive is installed on the secondary IDE channel as a slave device, then set the Sec Slave option in the BIOS to FLOPTICAL.

Well, AROS should boot if the drive is SLAVE but ONLY if there's a drive also on MASTER. That's appeared to be a correct connection respecting to the IDE specification, and AROS follows it. One reason for this can be use of the serial mouse (these is not supported yet). You must use PS/2 mouse with AROS at the moment. Another can be if you've chosen a video mode unsupported by your hardware in boot menu. Reboot and try a different one.

Just use your order number to re-register by going to help/register... If you do not know your order number send an email to support@modelworks.com with your name, email address, the name of the product and when and where you purchased it. If it was purchased by someone other than you, please provide details.

Backup Professional will support the IDE tape drive if you can read and write both rewind and no rewind device using the tar utility shipped with your platform. In this case, you will be unable to use advanced positioning and fast seek. The advanced positioning is used for positioning two different file sets on a tape for either backup or restore. Quick seek is used when restoring a file to quickly seek to this file.

Yes, but only with Linux and homebrew software. PSBBN checks the firmware of the HDD and Sony customizes the firmware of their HDD units. Until someone manages to crack the firmware and make it so you can put the changes on your own hard drive, you need an official HDD unit from Sony to use with games. Here's proof that the Sony HDD is just a relabled Maxtor hard drive. I've scanned my hard drive right here.

Currently 250 GB and larger drives are supported (up to 2 TBytes per drive). Please check http://www.3ware.com/support/sys_compatibility.asp for the latest 3ware approved hard drives. DM supports media scan for all drives attached to the controller. Any ECC errors will be logged in the alarms page. Drives displaying excessive ECC errors should be replaced.

Ans: A standard 40-wire IDE cable WILL work with ATA-33, ATA-66, ATA-100 or ATA-133 drives but it will only allow 33MB/s performance. However, it is recommended that you use an Ultra ATA 80-wire/40-pin cable no matter what your drive rating for several reasons: wire/40-pin cables offer improved data reliability and signal integrity by adding 40 more ground wires than standard 40-wire/40-pin IDE cables.

WinRescue will back up to an external harddrive as long as it is listed in Windows Explorer as a regular harddrive. WinRescue backs up files and not a harddrive image. So, the harddrive's boot information is not backed up. Making a Boot Disk in WinRescue (95/98/ME) will save the boot information on a diskette.

We recommend any LG or Samsung Drive, most Liteon Drives also fit. Plextor Drives can be fitted, but are recommended for modders only.