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Skriven 2006-08-05 15:25:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
  Kommentar till text 20116 av Jean Parrot (1:123/140)
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Hello Jean!

Saturday August 05 2006 09:43, JEAN PARROT wrote to MICK LAZIC:

 JP>     Hello Mick, nice talking to you !
 JP>
 JP>>         When you mention SCSI, you are referring to the Ramlink ?
 JP>
 ML>> The hard drive was 'Lt. Kernal', SCSI interface, remember those?
 JP>
 JP>         The Ramlink also was a SCSI HD, mine was 40 megs and I could
 JP>    not fill it more than 1/3. Did you ever use the Windows-like Wheels
 JP>    from Maurice, after GEOS ? A very nice GUI OS, much like W95A.
 JP>
 JP>
 JP>    In Kamouraska where the belugas are.
 JP>              N 47' 34.27   W 069' 51.44
 JP> ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
 JP> -+- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 JP>  + Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)

Tursday Aug 3rd I experimented with something else
that stores a lot of Data/Files/Songs/Pictures/Movies..

USB 2.0 Flash Disk.. 8.0 GB capacity and looks like
a Bic Lighter.. Works just like a Fat32 Hard Drive
on Windows98/98Se/ME/W2k/XP will also work on USB 1.1
Transfer rates on USB2 = 12 MB/Sec Read, 7.0 MB/Sec Write

Fast enought to Play Movies/Song or Run Applications
Directly off the USB Flash Disk..

the 2GB version at Walmart/Office Depot/Fry's/Best Buy
goes for $85-90.00

I got this 8GB for $54.00 on eBay..
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Now for the Bad News.. I have an RMA Number for a Refund
as soon as I mail it back Monday morning..

The Concept is a good Idea Idea, if it worked as intended.
WinXP saw it as a New Formated Hard drive as soon
as I plugged it into the USB Port, and Properties
on the Drive saw it as an 8 GB Fat 32 HD..

I was able to transfer 6 GB of Zip Files, Movies, Pictures
and MP3 files in no time Very fast transfer rate..

and a Comarison of the Files on the HD with the files
on the USB Flash drive were identical..

Properties of the Flash Drive showed 6.0 GB used and 1.92 GB
Free...

Anything stored on the FIRST 750 MB on the Flash drive
could be run directly off the Flash Drive,
Movies played flawlessly, MP3's played ok,
I could open Zip Files and extract contence to my HDD

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Bad New Part two:
Any Files on the Flash Disk stored beyond the
first 750 MB, would not Run, Open or Play..

in most cases, when I clicked on them, They Disapeared
from the Flash Drive listing, as dis the whole Sub-directory..

Priperties still showed 6.0 GB Used, but over 4 GB of Files
gradully disapeared from the Dir Listing on the Flash disk..

I ran Check disk with Fix Flaws option, no problem found

I reformated the Flash Disk several times and tried
different combination on three different Computers
with the same results..

Now you know why I'm sending it back after one day use..

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I still think the Concept was Good..


Regards,
George Vandervort
InterNet EMail: georgev@austin.rr.com
Tech Support: http://home.austin.rr.com/llr/spa/

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