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VIA Arena Forums – Windosw 2000 data corruption on VIA Apollo266 with mirrored Promise This seems close to my problem. Data corruption with Promise RAID controller and some versino of NT. Appears to be some kind of bug with the 4-in-1 driver. Worked fine once it went all native XP.…

VIA IDE Driver Guide This is a great piece that explains what exactly is going on with the IDE drivers that you get from VIA and directly from MIcrosoft. Well worth the read.

Reviewmakers.com – VIA Promise Raid Performance Patch Effectiveness. Here is a note on VIA and Promise RAID performanceproblems. It appears that Promise doesn’t like the VIA chipset. There is a fix, but only for later chipsets that a 266MHz DDR. I have a Apollo Pro133a, so this doesn’t help me…

Event ID. Wow, this seems to be the best database of the various events that are occuring. I’m getting a dmio disk write error.

VIA Arena – Drivers. Still having consistency problems with Promise Raid 0 mirroring. Am thinking now it could be the VIA drivers. There is of course a support location at www.viaarena.com that talks about this in much more detail that the www.via.com does.

Total Cycling, Looking for shoes, as usual www.totalcycling has some great prices. $112 for the Sidi Genius 4 which lists for $189 normally.

Men’s Short Sleeve Jerseys. Some good prices at the sports basement

Tape Resources – Frequently Asked Questions. At last a pretty good source for what is a good miniDV tape. The answer seems to be the Panasonic Master MQ which is 1db better than PQ. Then there is Sony EX which is 2db better than their PR. Seems like using professional…

Blank Mini DV Tapes at Discount Prices. Wow, a site that specializes in media. Good prices on minidv tapes.

FAQ: DV Format Technology. Strange details about what is really going on in digital video