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New HDD, has corrupted Data - AGAIN
Ammammata wrote:
Il giorno Sat 16 Dec 2017 08:26:40p, ** ha inviato su microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio . Vediamo cosa ha scritto: This is an old IBM brand computer from about 2001 an almost seventeen-years-old computer is like a Ford Model T you can't ask the hardware to be fully functional after so much time it's your mistake to pretend to work safely with it imho I have a few 18 year old machines, still in mint condition. No complaints. The installed OS still runs, just like it used to. These machines use a lot of electricity though. One machine I measured some time ago, it used 150W just sitting there doing nothing. Like it was a V8 car with big fins on the back :-) The machines back then, had hardly any power-saving features. That's one reason they make poor choices if your electricity is expensive. ******* They won't boot off a DVD though, because when the machines were invented, DVDs didn't exist, and nobody prepared for the arrival of DVDs. I even put a DVD drive in the machines to test this. I was disappointed, but not surprised. On earlier computers, some of the booting process is done by "hard drive emulation". The BIOS converts other device types to "look like" a hard drive. And part of that methodology involves "fixed size disks". So when the DVD came along, it was much larger than anything the designers had anticipated. Amongst other problems. I don't think the BIOS knows what the DVD command set looks like either. It wasn't an El Torito problem I was seeing, it was a physical layer problem - the BIOS just didn't want to touch the drive. One other quirk someone else in the newsgroups tested at the time, is they inserted a SATA PCI card into the machine. And the BIOS just ignored it, and the OS couldn't use it. So again, if you use hardware cards the BIOS has never heard of, there will be problems. But these really aren't surprises. It's to be expected things like this will happen. I was booting something just yesterday, and in the boot log on the screen it said "18493843248 GB disk". Then the next line said "this is a really big disk". No ****. So again, modern software is never prepared for surprises, even if the software was written in 2017. I don't know how the booting OS in that case, had managed to query the disk drive, but it got an absurdly large (wrong) size from it. No software is really "prepared for infinity and beyond" :-) The main problem with old computers, is there's no decent web browser to use on them. That's why the machines sit in the Junk Room. Paul |
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