Hello Syafril Hermansyah,
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:45:59 +0700 GMT your local time,
which was Monday, December 27, 1999, 11:45:59 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Syafril Hermansyah wrote:
Syafril> Sometimes there is a condition that we must replace motherboard to
Syafril> upgrade our RAM such: no more slots, we use old fashioned Motherboard
Syafril> etc.
Syafril> Then, if you look at the link I mentioned, the tweaking of IDE UDMA
Syafril> drive very useful and more cheap than change to SCSI drive. This will
Syafril> help much for I/O bound application (like Mail Server etc).
But will your old boards make proper use of the UDMA?
Donot forget that SCSI also takes a lot of work away from the
processor.
I have an old 486 with scsi running a cdrom burner....
You can play mpegs on a 2 speed scsi cdrom. I had 2 old plextors
nobody wanted in a shop and I stuck them in a machine with a
spare scsi card, and it plays the movies/games etc.
That 'old ' scsi stuff is way better in many ways then the ide's everybody
buys. One of the reasons I recently send an old scsi card to a friend
in the USA as it was one of those old cards (you remember the 3
slots). That whole office had a scsi card, cd rom and hard disk in all
machines and they ran as stable as you might want.
Syafril> Question : Mail Client is Compute Bound or I/O bound from your point
Syafril> of view ?
Modem bound I would say, processor bound with the wrong modem (like
win-modem)
Or with a lot of data on old boards port bound (I used an ESP card for
my modem, and I still have it but no drivers for 98. It will handle
800k/sec...)
In general with older boards you may be better off with internal
modems as they have the higher speed ports included.
Syafril> How come ? So, what do you think/view about mailbox corrupt ?
Can have many reasons, maybe not enough ram, badly running windows.
The more things are split up the more chances on problems.
Sofar they never corrupted in my machine.
I havent seen any description of system involved but believe me, I
crashed while boxes are open BUT I always run the scan disk/equivalent
after to boot to sort the obvious mess out and fix it by deleting
whatever is conflicting.
Best regards,
tracer
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