Hello listers, I have a couple of questions, including one somewhat off topic:
1) The first is with regard to hard drives - does a hard drive ALWAYS have to have, to operate properly, a regular primary partition, or can it just have an extended partition??? After working with a number of hard drives over the years, and various versions of Dos and Windows, it seems that you must have a primary partition before you can define an extended partition. Since the extended is supposted to be a primary, it would seem that it could be the all in one partition on a hard drive, but that does not seem to be the case from my previous experiences, that you have to define a regular primary then an extended. 2) The next is with regard to the Promise Ultra ATA controller card - when you hook up a hard drive to the controller, and lets say you have 1 or more partitions defined on the hard drive, how does the primary partition get viewed in the lettering scheme of things??? For example, let's say you hook up 2 hard drives to the regular IDE controller on the mother board - the primary partition on the master is drive C:, the primary on the slave is drive D:, and then the logical drives on the master pick up from there (E:, F:, G:, etc) until the logical drives on the slave, which pick up from the ones defined on the master and start with the next letter value. BUT, I need to know when you are dealing with a hard drive connected to the Promise card, does the primary partition on the drive to the controller become D:, as with the IDE controller on the mother board, or does the primary partition pick up where all the other drive letters end on the motherboard connected drives???? Since I am going to have 2 drives in my new computer, one connected to the motherboard controller and one through the Promise card, I need to figure out what is going to go where, and size of partitions that will need to be setup. The slave device on the primary motherboard partition is going to have an internal Iomega Zip drive connected, so the need for the Promise controller card. The secondary channel on the motherboard is going to have several burners on them. 3) *** OFF TOPIC *** (maybe) - due to the way things looked in the last six months, I purchased various pieces of computer equipment, including DVD burners, video cards, sound card, P4 1.6 Gig, 1 Gig ram, bare bones computer system, and other items, as well as OS and related software, that were going to get put together into a completed system to replace my older system. Now, because of other issues that have occured in the last weeks, things are changed and I have a more current system. The other equipment was purchased brand new and has never been used, but can not be returned due to length of time I have had (oh, the 20/20 vision of hindsight and "boy would I have waited if I only knew then" when seen from a future point of view). So the question I have for those on the list is how to sell the other equipment to those that would need a currently speced but never used system and/or equipment to try and regain some of the money I originally spent for the equipment??? Since I have never used a system such as E-Bay or similar, and dont really want to use that approach if possible, not sure what is the best to do. With my background, if the purchase was done locally here in the San Francisco area, I could give the person as much help and support as I could in the future. Since there are some on the list that have computer and electronic experience with current retail and similar operations, was wondering how someone like myself goes about trying to deal with the subject I have??? Hopefully, Maureen will not be upset with this last item, of the 3, since hopefully the info might be useful for others on the list as well, that find themselves in the same or similar situation as I am now in. Ralph ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
