Suspicious hardware?

This page intend to share various notes i've found on hardware devices.

Hard Drive

I have a Quantum harddrive Model Fireball_TM_1080A
( SERIAL N:681621129146F  - Firmcase Rev: A6B.1T00 )

My snail mail adress is :
   Philippe Coval
   7 Rue Jean Moulin 
   31170 Tournefeuille 
   FRANCE

Bought in Dec 1996, at ASIAN MACHINS, TOULOUSE,FRANCE

Some bad sectors appeared but it was still "useable". and now it is compleatly stuck.
The device has a 3 years warranty, and i want to use it but the shop which sold me is closed definitivly.

Some what is the procedure to have a fixed disk or a new one ?

I look foreward on you, thank you

Ps : my bios doesnt even reconize my hd (and all bios havent the low level format option)
one of my friends "repaired" this drive and format it again on an amiga box

ps : from where did u know that i have a hd trouble ? should i return my disk to the manufacterer and use my warenty ?

Harddrive : Quantum Fireball (1.1Gb)

This hardrive is sometimes not reconized by my bios and stuck how comes ?
Then is there appz that low level format and mark bad blocks ?
What i do now is try to use it less as possible. Or detect badblocks (w/ the linux badblock command) and format it (linux mkfs.dos).

PC's Sound Cards :

ALS 007

On the box it i said as a SB16 comp device ...but :
This card as a single 8bit dma (1) not 16 bits
The OSS driver doesn't work
On 2.0 kernel the sound level is very very low

Trust deluxe 3d....

The balance eq is false ( +~50% on the right)
It isnt reconized by oss

Guillemot international : Maxi sound

This model has a midi shipset (mpu401)
Isa slot
The dos driver is a 'config.sys' one

On linux 2.2 this card is seen as a sb pro (8bits) while on windows it works as a 16 bits mode ?
How can i make this card work in 16 bits on DOS and Linux ?

http://www.guillemot.com

unknown sound card (ISA slot)

Chipset : ESS Audiodrive ES1868F I have no drivers of it but i guess it is Soundblaster compatible

UNKNOWN PC MODEM

Unknown modem (ISA slot) but works as a standard one

Windows 95 : Modem Standard 19200bps / MDMGEN192 / 115200 Kbauds Port COM2 IRQ03@IO=0x2F8/0x2FF / UART16550A COM1: Irq04@03F8

Mulinux:

Chips: Rockwell 93 - 3X france ISA51EE - C39R/U - C4000-13 - A77391.2 RCV144DPI - R6645-18 9526.A796660.3

IO/ 0x20E8-0x2F8-0x3E8-0x3F8 http://www.rockwell.com/

CD ROM : Goldstar GCD 580B (x8)

The only way i found to do digital extraction w/ this drive is using cdparanoia on linux but it is very slow (around *0.4).
Is there other rippers avialables ?

My Cdrom is not working as i used to be ... it is very hazardous : it read the data correctly until it stuck and then it can not access anything no daa no directory. I tried it on different cdrom and it is the same think. I bought this device in Dec 1996 . it was warented 3 years but the shop i bought it closed definitivly Can u tell me what are my chances to have this drive repaired or changed ?

Amiga : not validated disk

How to validate an amiga hard disk ? when the sys can't do it ?

Amiga: how to repair an External 3'5 drive

MP3 box

What is the minimum conf to play mp3 files ?

HD brute format

How to format a disfunctional HD ? (hum, i know the "buy a new one" solution) how to low level format it ? partitioning can't be aplied using fdisk ?

ADC 65

*Compact in size and lightweight 
*256 x 256 CMOS sensor and have 15 images storage 
capacity 
*4 software: 
~ ArcSoft PhotoBase 
~ ArcSoft PhotoStudio 
~ ArcSoft Photo Fantasy 
~ Arcsoft Photo Printer 
*International DRAM Memory allows fast capture 
refreshing time and fast retrieving time while 
downloading 
*Output images are ideal for printing to stickers 
or outputting as a credit-sized clipart 
*Packaging-Clamshell with the camera, cable and 
CD com

http://www.achievercam.com.hk/
http://www.gphoto.org/

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