Leaving A PC On 24 Hours

[Abuilder]

Yep
The good ol' days. Back when you have to low-level your MFM hard drive before you could fdisk it. Lets see how did that go?
a:>debug
-g=c800:5

or something like that.

Time for a Scotch!

[jm1647]

Yep
The good ol' days. Back when you have to low-level your MFM hard drive before you could fdisk it. Lets see how did that go?
a:>debug
-g=c800:5

or something like that.

Time for a Scotch!

Yeah something like that, I've had way too many drinks since then to remember that one remember the size of them old drives I had one that was thicker than a Philly phone book, with the controller and circuit boards exposed on the bottom. I still have (2) of the old external CD drives that have the holder ya hadda put the CD in before ya put it in the drive that were the size of Shaq's sneaker box and an external DVD ROm drive .

[Abuilder]

And 20 meg hard drives were HUGE.

[techreactor]

jm1647

C:\Documents and Settings\Rufus>Systeminfo | Find "Up Time"

Well now, I'm impressed. Way back when DOS was about the only OS out there, very few ever knew how to use the pipe command.

I still use DOS commands in XP, I find them too convenient and fast

[photo_angel2004]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I do turn them off during bad thunderstorms etc.

The special blower I have for my air house removes all moisture from the compressed air before blowing it out also.

That sounds like me in bad storms I shut mine down otherwise my machines run 24/7


There was one time when I went on vacation and shut all 3 pc's off for 2 weeks I had some problems with 2 of them when powring them up. I leave them run now.

I try to reboot once a day depending on what I am running on mine.

[Experi-Mentor]

"mfm" - mmm, it's been a while, & i used "rll" cards with "mfm" drives to gain 50% more data space

[Abuilder]

Oh my gosh. And the old timers (at the time) would tell you shouldn’t do that because the “drives” were different, and doing that would damage the mfm drive.
Oh hell! The only difference between the old Seagate ST225 and the ST255R models was the damn “R” printed on the label.
LOL

[Experi-Mentor]

yes, to gain 50% space was a big deal - not to mention the present bad sectors also increased by 50%.
many folk encountered data corruption. the drives then needed to run for 20 min (to warm-up) prior to any data being stored & any formatting. but who listened ? not many

mfm to rll conversion were somewhat risky, & the "r" was the indicator that the drive was "rll" ready. the mfm logic was set, but the rll cards allowed that logic to be exploited, & how do you think ide came about ?
heck, i still own a special 8bit ide card. it was the only way to low-level format them back then.

as for the old timers, let's say there were more strict protocols to follow back then. electronics has it's own laws, & that was strongly burned in our heads. these days, not many rules are adhered to. just look at all the incompatibilities that are present these days. perhaps the head-banging should be directed towards that.