hmurchison2001: Is it possible to disable the SSC myself?
I have just received an email from Seagate telling me...
"The issue is actually with the controller card in question. T…
For the record, MaxConnect offers a product that will allow installation of bunches of more drives into a G5. I have not tried it, but I read the rundown on MacNN's front page a f…
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Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
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Damn it looks like the SSC cannot be disabled on the Seagates.
There is a DOS based utility called sscset.exe that a Seag…
I've had a 500Gb Hitachi in my dual 2.5 for about a month now, works like a dream. Formatted in about a minute and was ready to use. 463.4Gb listed as available.
Storage Review shows the new Hitachi 500GB SATA as the current 7200RPM performance king.
It runs a little hotter than other drives, but that's no surprise for the fastest, largest…
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Originally Posted by clinexo
There is a DOS based utility called sscset.exe that a Seagate technician E-mailed me when I called this problem in. It will allow you to togg…
Got my Seagate drive back with the SSC disabled and it now works perfectly
Listen to clinexo, and use this DOS utility if you can. I had mine fixed by the peeps at Seagate and ha…
When you disable SSC, does it diminish the performance/speed of the drive in any way?
I've had the same problem with my new PM G6 Quad recognizing a Seagate 500gb SATA internal dr…
Shutting off at 50% is a usually a good indication that you need to calibrate your battery. (Here are the directions for calibrating an iBook battery.) However your usage pattern m…
Agreed that a calibration is in order, but the usage doesn't look like every use is a calibration cycle...if the iBook is put back on the charger before it shuts itself down, then…
Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mAh would take forever
But I can vouch fo…
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Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mA…
Wow, 742 cycles and still over 80% capacity. My 14" 1.2ghz iBook battery only has 51 cycles in 17 months and it is at 72% according to Capacity Meter. I've recalibrated it several …
This type of thing happens every year on the day after Thanksgiving. Laptops aren't the only things that cause people to act this way. In my area it was socks that were 50% off tha…
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
Throwing a laptop 20 feet in the air and a group of people jumping on top of it is normal?
No, its not normal. But in the US, on the…
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Originally Posted by gururafiki
No, its not normal. But in the US, on the day after Thanksgiving, it is not shocking either.
What about that iBook idiocy?
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I guess I missed that one. What was that about?
Some dumbass school county decided that paying more money for Windows laptops was som…