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What is a benefit of using separate HDD / RAID controller?
I have Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with integrated HDD controller providing 6 SATA II (3 Gb/s) ports. I use this controller for 2 SSDs and 4 HDDs. SSDs and one HDD are for host system (Windows 7 ...
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Optiplex can't find SATA III Controller
I just purchased a HighPoint Rocket 620 Storage controller- Serial ATA-600- 600 MBps (OEM version) and a OWC SSD:
For some reason, my Dell Optiplex 755 bios sees this card as a storage device ...
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Is “Ultra320 LVD SCSI” the correct name of the interface?
I have a HP Ultrium 960 tape drive, but I can't figure out what the SCSI interface is called.
The white paper doesn't mention it
According to this site it is called "Ultra320 LVD SCSI".
I can't ...
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Intel ICH10R vs Marvell 9123 for desktop RAID 1 with SSDs
I have a desktop with an ASUS motherboard with 6 SATA ports.
4x3Gbps ICH10R ports
2x6Gbps Marvell 9123 ports
I bought two 3Gbps Intel SSD drives to be used in a RAID 1 configuration (reliability ...
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How to tell whether your racing game wheel is analog
I imagine that are two kinds of controller wheels:
Good, where there are multiple steering levels (analog)
Bad, where is there is just right or left (like a keyboard button)
How can I identify in ...
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Is controller a computer?
A microcontorller is a computer on a single chip. Is a controller also a computer?
From Wikipedia
controller signifies a chip or
expansion card that interfaces with a
peripheral device. ...
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360 controller restarts my PC
When I connect my wired Xbox 360 controller to a USB port on my PC, the computer shuts down instantly. I have no idea why this happens. It used to work.
I have tried to other ports, and I can connect ...
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How is the capacity of a harddisk faked?
I was reading about magical Chinese drives. How would this be done? The post talks about a 'looped mode' and comments suggest having a different controller to lie to the OS.
I went and bought one of ...
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High Performance USB connection?
I'm wondering if there high performance USB controllers in the same way that there are high performance NIC cards. I'd like a way to run a USB device with minimal load on the main CPU.
Any Ideas?
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Intel SASWT4I SAS/SATA Controller
I want to assemble a cheap storage sytem based on the Norco RPC-4020 Case.
When searching for controllers I found this one:
Intel® RAID Controller SASWT4I
This is a quote form the Spec Sheet:
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Unable to determine why HDD cannot be recognized
Yesterday, I was the unfortunate victim of an icy sidewalk. I slipped while carrying my HP dv6780se laptop hibernating in its case. I didn't think anything of the laptop until I got home, noted that ...
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SATA Card/RAID Controller - Covering Both Economically
I have been researching RAID (specifically RAID 5) for the last couple weeks. I have seen arguments for both sides, whether to use it, whether to use software versus hardware, and some arguments in ...
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Windows XP SP3 does not recognize my RAID SET?
I have a EP45C-UD3R motherboard and recently installed a Sil3132 PCI-E controller with 2 500GB Sata2 HD, at bios level the controller is recognized and I can setup my RAID SET which I set to RAID1.
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PS3 controller -> PC -> emulators -> TV
I'm researching a media PC for the living room. Playing videos, audio and streaming Internet is straightforward enough. I would also like to run a gaming console system. I was wondering if anyone has ...
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How can I find the right driver for my RAID controller?
I have a RAID controller that I used to have a driver for, but after rebuilding windows, the controller no longer shows up.
I don't remember who made it, or really anything about it. How can I track ...
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Relation between controllers, interfaces, adapt cards, chipsets, buses
I am confused about the following concepts and their relations: controllers, interfaces, adapters, chipsets, buses and north/south bridges. Can anyone point out how they are working together, what are ...
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Can an SSD drive be used without a controller?
I read somewhere that an SSD can be attached to a motherboard using the PCI-Express bus without a controller. I am not sure what this means. If these are special kind of motherboards, what are some of ...
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System Event ID 11 Disk
Upon starting Windows Server 2008 R2 I get this error message:
Event ID 11 Disk
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3.
There are also also 3 more similar messages for ...
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8051 MCU debug board function
In school I have written many programs for an 8051 compatible CPU. But I never actually knew how our "debug" sets worked. I mean, we test our programs in special sets, which actually allow you to very ...
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Controller Error: Do I need to worry?
I have a HP Pavillion dv5224ea Laptop with Windows 7 on it. Recently I discovered a Error in Event Viewer:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.
(more details):
- System
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Memory Stick Controller is not compatible with this version of Windows
I'm getting this error message in the Action Center on Windows 7, and I can't seem to solve it through Windows or through searches on Google:
RICOH R5C592 PCI-CardBus/IEEE-1394/SD Card/Memory ...
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PCI-E SATA Controller
i'm trying to find a SATA Controller that has a PCI-E connecction of at least 4x, and has also at least 4 channels for SATA disks. I need it to make a real raid 5 system, the fakeraid on my ...
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Are USB hard drive sizes limited by motherboard hard drive controller?
I'm looking to put an expansion EIDE controller in my dad's desktop so it can handle a new 500 GB drive (evidently the motherboard EIDE controller has the 137 GB limit). He got a 500 GB USB hard drive ...
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Burnt SATA Drive
By stupid curiosity, I've connected the FDD power cable to the jumper pins of a SATA drive, and powered on the system. The SATA drive's controller burned out. What now? Can it be replaced, and still ...
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Is there a noticable difference between OB SATA bandwidth vs PCI-e SATA Controller
Main Question : Would I see any benefit (I/O bandwidth-wise) to purchasing a separate (non-raid) PCI-e controller card to plug SATAII drives into vs on-board SATAII slots?
I'd be plugging at least ...
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How can I use my xbox 360 controller on my pc?
I have read about it online people using their controller for pc games and other things, how can i do this?
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Using Xbox 360 controller with Mac OS X (specifically turning it off)
So I've been using this driver for a few months with the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller For Windows with my Mac Mini. Here's an article about the driver on Gizmodo. The driver works really well for ...
