[VoIP] For those of you who have just installed Asterisk1.4.16.2

[windmill]

Steph,

I have Maxblast, I got it when I upgraded my 8Gb P3 in 2001 with an 
additional 60Gb Maxtor drive, indeed that P3 is now my standby *box 
although I removed the 8Gb hard drive for possible use in an old AMD PC.
In fact I have a couple of copies of Maxblast and Seagate Seatools on 
1.4Mb floppies too, these programs used to be free downloads from the 
manufacturer websites and to be honest I never thought to try either.

As a matter of course I have generally kept such handy tools for 
troubleshooting other peoples PCs and have got used to maually setting 
up my own perhaps because until recently I have seldom had problems! I 
still have a ton of stuff on 5.25 floppy disks too although I don't know 
how they stand up to living in the rather damp garage. I just don't have 
the room for them in the house, most of my old computers live out there too!

Brian

Steph Kerman wrote:
> My Maxtor drives of a few years ago (120GB and 200 GB) came with CDROMs 
> containing a program named MaxBlast.  I used it on older machines and it 
> gave me full use of the drive.  The 200GB drive had to be partitioned 
> into a 137GB partition and a 66 GB partition.
>
> Yesterday I used MaxBlast on a 100 GB Seagate drive.  I wondered whether 
> it would accept the Seagate drive.  It announced that it recognized it 
> was being installed on a non-Maxtor drive and said and asked me to 
> accept that Maxtor would not be responsible if it did not work properly 
> on this non-Maxtor drive (as though they accept responsibility if it 
> does not work on a Maxtor drive!!).  Prior to running Maxblast, the 
> Windows did not show the presence of the drive at all, though the BIOS 
> setup screen listed it as being present.
>
> You can probably find a similar utility on any drive mfr's website.
>
> Steph
>
> Russ Price wrote:
>   
>> windmill wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> What has become a problem is finding hard drives for *boxes built on 
>>> older PCs, I have some new 160Gb drives lying around but they will only 
>>> run as 32Gb and I hate wasting all that capacity. 60Gb seems to be the 
>>> maximum I can get to run in the P3s and the 80Gb drives I tried won't 
>>> work unless I tell the BIOS they are 60Gb or less.
>>>     
>>>       
>> There are PCI IDE controller cards that have their own BIOS and won't 
>> waste space on large drives - or you could get a SATA card and use a 
>> SATA drive instead, as the SATA cards also have their own BIOS.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
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