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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2008, 02:17:02 PM »
Dunno if it is SATA 1 or 2...

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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2008, 02:18:18 PM »
what is the make and model of your motherboard?
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2008, 02:23:28 PM »
what is the make and model of your motherboard?
Its bolted into an HP Compaq dx2300/PD925/160hqm/1.0L/11h

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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2008, 02:34:08 PM »
out of interest how large are the SATA drives you are trying to set up?
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2008, 02:35:29 PM »
out of interest how large are the SATA drives you are trying to set up?

160Gbyte
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2008, 02:37:48 PM »
The standard issue disk for the model then, ok that rules out drive size as there is a SATA driver update for your machine on the HP site but it looks like its for 512Gb drives
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2008, 02:43:38 PM »
Is it a Samsung hard disk?
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2008, 02:45:17 PM »
Surely this belongs in the sad techy wanker forum?

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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2008, 02:45:55 PM »
MOve it there then. I am not even sure which language they are using whistle:
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2008, 02:47:34 PM »
Surely this belongs in the sad techy wanker forum?
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2008, 02:47:45 PM »
MOve it there then. I am not even sure which language they are using whistle:

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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2008, 02:48:27 PM »
Look at the disk, does it say Samsung anywhere on it?
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2008, 02:50:53 PM »
MOve it there then. I am not even sure which language they are using whistle:

Techywankerese

Let me guess Wenchy, in one ear and out the other?  whistle:
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Re: How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average
« Reply #29 on: January 18, 2008, 02:52:35 PM »
Look at the disk, does it say Samsung anywhere on it?
Well duh!  ::)

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Is it important for me to dismantle the machine for you and find out?

BTW just stuck linux on it and it worked first time...

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