Brought a Hard Disk finally!!!

A simple activity like buying a hard disk also bring around complexity in my life. The story goes something like this.

After waiting since long I have brought a hard disk for my system. It is a 500GB model of Seagate ST3500320AS with 32 MB cache.

I had got the hard disk one week earlier itself but unfortunately it was a ST3500820AS model which is the 8 mb model. but the thing is the Seagate does not make 8 MB model of 500 GB model. I find out that it is the result of a wrong firmware from Seagate. They loaded a 8 Mb model firmware on the 32 MB model resulting in the drive only using 8 MB of the available cache and wasting the rest.

I called up the shop for a replacement and they said i will get it when ever i take the hard disk to their shop.

I thought lets upgrade the firmware and I wont need to to got to the shop. I downloaded the latest firmware which was supposed to solve the issue AD14. Spent a day searching for any floppy disk lying around. I finally had to burn a cd for the firmware. It was gonna be dangerous since my CD drive is a SATA and the hard disk upgrade might be disturbed by it.

The upgrade failed and I had a SATA brick with me remaining as a trophy for my upgrade efforts.

I went and got it replaced this week and now have it running.

Next step is another one of this HDD and RAID 0.
The performance score for my Hard disk is as follows:
The Vista experience score for hard disk is now 5.9. Now working on processor to get it to 5.9.
(5.6 score is for AMD 6000+ overclocked to 3300 Mhz from BIOS)

Got a wi-fi Adapter G-122 Dlink

So many days since i have written anything. My net was down as the LAN cable connecting my computer to the router got badly cut. It was connected through the window and it got cut due to ht eopening and closing of the window pane.

My mistake entirely, I should have cut a groove or something so that the cable does not come in contact with the window. Anyways, the cabling was going around the entire place very badly and was messin up the place so i decided to go wireless.

The router was already an acess point D-link dI 524 so not expense on that side. There were two options here, one was to get an internal PCI card D-510 or to get an USB variant of called the USB adapter GWL G-122 . The GWL G132 which is an 108 Mb wi-fi seemed a more future proof solution but it was not available here and it would have taken some time for it to arrive.

SO finnaly I have got the wirless thing working and finaly the net is working after a month or so. The product driver and the net monitor software provided in the package seem not to support Vista. The drivers work and the connection i available but the Vista security had messed up the net monitor software and does not work.

I searched around and found some driver/software for Vista but in all the cases the software did not work. The drivers worked though.

It would have been nice to be able to monitor the wireless connection though...