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Flasherly
Second Asus MB DVDs are messing up. Dual SATA & PATA headers. A HD
in each, but either/or when a DVD is run -- in DOS, binary streaming
is slowed by a x5 factor -if- the binary copy program will reach the
HDs and doesn't go into limbo. Boots sometimes won't pickup the PATA
(boot) drive, and XP takes only after repeated reboots for getting
past non-existent read or perceived corruption errors. Nothing stable
about the DVDs, anyway, when it does take -- hit or miss operational
characteristics for reading or potentially writing. Hit/miss
weirdness with boot CDs, as well.
Started noticing it years ago, when sent a Lite-On back to Newegg for
defective, trick-marked and found my mark when they returned it.
Since branched to include several other DVD brands. Disconnect them
and all problems miraculously disappear. Streams between HDs
Pata><Sata like a banshee.
Turn off open it and there's cables for the contingency -- in the
event I have to try ass-luck hit a boot CD right when actually in need
to get something real done on a HD installation, through a likes
HIREMS boot CD -- partitioning, LFN manipulations, boot arbitrators,
etc. ...Fun going through several power cycles or warm reboots to get
it.
Have a couple Gigabyte MBs, too, for further, extensive tests. Apart
ASUS. Much more of this crap, though, if it shows up on Gigabyte is
only going to leave room for one thing -- DVD manufacturers having
been putting out shit since a couple of years past the NEC 3-series,
4&5xx models, when these problems first showed up, at least for me.
Screw it -- I've a couple PATA <> PCI interface boards, as well as
SATA. Nickel dime silicon Image chipset stuff. That seems to isolate
their gibberish, when it happens, from affecting the broader system
other than direct involvement with optical/disc manipulations.
Totally weird to me -- how optical discs still are of such importance
for distributional means, and how whacked out it's been in my dealings
with at least half a dozen drive names these past years.
in each, but either/or when a DVD is run -- in DOS, binary streaming
is slowed by a x5 factor -if- the binary copy program will reach the
HDs and doesn't go into limbo. Boots sometimes won't pickup the PATA
(boot) drive, and XP takes only after repeated reboots for getting
past non-existent read or perceived corruption errors. Nothing stable
about the DVDs, anyway, when it does take -- hit or miss operational
characteristics for reading or potentially writing. Hit/miss
weirdness with boot CDs, as well.
Started noticing it years ago, when sent a Lite-On back to Newegg for
defective, trick-marked and found my mark when they returned it.
Since branched to include several other DVD brands. Disconnect them
and all problems miraculously disappear. Streams between HDs
Pata><Sata like a banshee.
Turn off open it and there's cables for the contingency -- in the
event I have to try ass-luck hit a boot CD right when actually in need
to get something real done on a HD installation, through a likes
HIREMS boot CD -- partitioning, LFN manipulations, boot arbitrators,
etc. ...Fun going through several power cycles or warm reboots to get
it.
Have a couple Gigabyte MBs, too, for further, extensive tests. Apart
ASUS. Much more of this crap, though, if it shows up on Gigabyte is
only going to leave room for one thing -- DVD manufacturers having
been putting out shit since a couple of years past the NEC 3-series,
4&5xx models, when these problems first showed up, at least for me.
Screw it -- I've a couple PATA <> PCI interface boards, as well as
SATA. Nickel dime silicon Image chipset stuff. That seems to isolate
their gibberish, when it happens, from affecting the broader system
other than direct involvement with optical/disc manipulations.
Totally weird to me -- how optical discs still are of such importance
for distributional means, and how whacked out it's been in my dealings
with at least half a dozen drive names these past years.