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Brian
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
I just bought a "Best Data 56k internal data fax modem for windows 95,98", but i can't seem to get it to work with dos applications, any suggestions? P.S. ALWAYS UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER & MODEM DURING A THUNDERSTORM. (Storm blew out my motherboard and modem) :( |
Simon
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
Chances are you have purchased a win modem, if this is the case there is no way to get dos applications to work with it as far as I know. You need a normal modem for running dos application with a modem... PS: Anyone know if there is anyway at all to run a ATA drive on a IDE System? Thanks. Simon. |
Dave
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
You're absolutely right. A "winmodem" is exactly what it sounds like. It will run only under a Win9x environment. It is essentially a phone jack on an expansion card. My advice is: don't buy one. You are flirting with hardware hell. As for ATA on an IDE system, the two standards are fully compatible. If your motherboard (or controller card) won't support ATA, the drive will revert to an earlier (slower) standard. You may have to use a disk utility to get the mother- board to recognize drives larger than 500Mb (or 2Gb, or 8Gb), but trust me: any ATA drive will work with any PC that is 80386 or better, assuming you are using an IDE controller, whether on board or embedded. |
Simon
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
So just a quick Question, Can I put the ATA HDD on the SAme IDE chain as my IDE HDD it's a 500mb drive this is only going into a 80486dx266 Thanks.. Simon. |
Dave
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
Sure. Keep in mind though, that the slave in a chain will only transfer data as fast as the master drive's best possible speed. So if you have a speedy new 6 Gb drive following a tired old 500 Mb, you are not going to be taking advantage of the (considerable) performance gain you would see if you made the new drive the C: . Of course this means that you will have to reinstall your operating system, but the reward is dramatic speed boost. |
Simon
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
Thanks I got that ATA Drive Working! |
Brian
| Posted on Sunday, September 26, 1999 - 3:22 pm: | |
Hmmm... Wish i had known it was a winmodem before i bought it. I'm not exactly sure i want to take it back though. It's the only one of 6 modems to actually work on this computer. |
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