Kostya17:
First of all,
THANKS for trying to re-generate interest in the
wonderful Gateway 6400 Server.
I have to agree with
badbilly27, though; there were THOUSANDS of posts when we were all buying this server "a long time ago, in a galaxy... yadda, yadda, yadda", but now [May 2002], you can't find anything useful via
Google *or* [based on the number of participants in the original thread(s)]
HERE on AT.
neuralfx:
Go back to sleep -
These are not the droids you are looking for...
IT WAS THOUSANDS!!!
That leaves us
relics with the following options:
- Everyone else SOLD their Gateway 6400 Server on eBay, and made TONS of $money$!!!
- Everyone else got their Gateway 6400 Server to do *whatever* they needed WITHOUT asking anyone else for assistance???
- We are all idiots... :disgust::frown:
Now me, I'm stubborn... I'm *really* impressed with the
construction of this server. I've been building my own computers since 1977 (hence the term
relic ). I bought an eMachine eTower 400IX "refurbished" in Jan 2000, because I felt I couldn't build one for less than the $300 I paid *
AND it's stilll working perfectly, since the
only thing I changed was the HD (upgraded the 6.4GB to 13GB - the eMachines have marginal PSs, so, adding additional components is
risky). I broke down and bought a Dell 4100 P3/933 in Dec 2000, because I was tired of fighting with the AMD K6-III/400 / FIC503A that was my last project (I'll tell you about the VIA chipset if you *really* want to know!). I bought this Gateway 6400 because it just seemed like a
great deal for the money.
I bought this Gateway to be a:
- FileServer
- Proxy Server
- PVR
- Server Training Tool
So, here we all are, ~ a year later, comparing notes... I had no trouble at all installing my ATI AIW 128 32MB PCI video card - it worked perfectly the first time (as a video card, that is... capturing without GPFs is another story). On the other hand, I had
TONS of problems with my Maxtor (aka Promise) Ultra ATA/100 controller (tried two!; then tried my old ATA/33 - no improvement!). So, the problem must be the SLOTS, since you had the exactly
OPPOSITE response!
I had a problem copying large files (i.e. TiVo images; ~650MG and ~1.2GB) from one logical drive to another (it would hang and just sit there). This problem also showed up in Defrag - it would reach 10% and then hang (for hours! aka forever...) After reading this thread, I swapped cards around. My SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) was to put the video card on top [Slot 1], the sound card on the bottom [Slot 7], any disk controllers (SCSI, Promise) under the video card, then the nic, then the modem, etc... I had tried the Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 in both Slot 2 and 3 to no avail... So, now I moved the ATI AIW to Slot 5 (the first 64-bit slot), and the Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 to Slot 1 and after having to re-install the software for both, the 2 Maxtor 45GB IDE 7200rpm drives seem to be working better (Defrags now finish - HDTach261 reports 31693kps @ 4.4% CPU - never bothered to check it before.)
BTW
Kostya17, thanks for reminding me about the Sync160. You know, I have this
problem about doing things over - if I do something
ONCE, I have a very hard time thinking that I have to do it
AGAIN. HDTach261 reported 11920kps before I changed the Sync160 - 26812kps after! In my little "kingdom" here, I'm currently maintaining 7 machines - the old Workstation, the old Server, the new Workstation, the new Server, the backup Workstation, the "parallel test" Workstation, the laptop. Except for the laptop, all the other machines are "multi-boot" - consisting of a combination of Win98, Win98SE, WinNT Workstation, WinNT Server, Wink2K Server (
IF I would have known that Dell's Win2KPro Install disks
checked the BIOS before installing, I would have
NEVER paid the extra ~$300 for Win2KPro with my Dell 4100!!!) [Does anyone know how to defeat this?!?]
So, back to configuring my Gateway 6400 as a PVR - I don't really know if this is a problem or not, but, under Win98SE, I cannot move IRQs around. IRQ11 is overloaded, with Symbios Ultra3 PCI SCSI Adapter, Sound Blaster AudioPCI, All-In-Wonder 128 PCI (and IRQ Holder for PCI Steering), while IRQ5 is
FREE, since I disabled the Symbios Ultra# PCI SCSI Adapter (2nd occurance).
BUT, I cannot move the SoundBlaster to IRQ5 since when I clear "Use automatic settings", the only choice is "Basic configuration 0000", which
DOESN'T allowing changing
ANYTHING (same goes for changing the Symbios or the All-In-Wonder). On my FIC503A, in the BIOS, I could "reserve" an IRQ for a Legacy device - this would "bump" a Windows device OFF that IRQ.
BUT, the CUR-DLS BIOS has no such choices... :frown:
Thus, I'm getting closer, but, no cigar yet... Currently, I have the Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 in Slot 1 [was originally in Slot 3, then Slot 2], the ATI AIW 128 PCI in Slot 5 (the top 64-bit Slot) [was in Slot 1], and the Sound Blaster 16 PCI in Slot 7. My next "move" is to move the SB16 around and see what IRQs it acquires in the multiple OS's...
Is anyone else building a PVR???