Posts by baidarkabob

Thanks for the reply Seablade. The two drives have been working in daisy chain mode for a couple days now. Not sure why getting it to work in OSX first was the trick to getting it working in XP but that seemed to do the trick. Now I...

Additional Data - The two drives daisy chain just fine via the FW400 ports on the OSX side as well. If I boot to OSX first, then reboot into XP, both drives show up. If I start out booting to XP no go. Pretty weird. bob

Hi, I am hoping someone here can help me figure out how to get two hard drives to show up on the windows XP side of things - using firewire. I have tried daisy chaining the HDs but there does not seem to be enough power in the...

Thanks for the advice Seablade. I will turn the page file off for a while and see how that goes. b

Hi, I am running XP on a new MBP with 4 gigs of RAM (bootcamp). What would you suggest I do with the pagefile settings, or any other settings for that matter, to speed up XP operation. Thanks, bob

Oops, should have done a more thorough search. nevermind. For posterity - The drive is NTFS thus cannot be renamed on the Mac side. I renamed the drive on the XP side, in fact I renamed it ".windows" so that it would not...

Hi, I am an inexperienced Mac user that just purchased an MBP. I set up a bootcamp partition that seems to be working perfectly except I must have missed the part where you name the partition during setup (it is called...

Can anyone comment specifically on performance of office 2007 applications, especially outlook, on parallels vs. fusion? How about the same question for: ACDSEE Pro 2, Proshow Gold, WinSCP For those last three, how about a suggestion...

Thanks very much for the article link. You are confirming what I am finding on the general take. I am currently using the 250GB WD passport. It works well for me if I am moving around for a specific job because I can copy just the...

Thanks to you all for the advice. As far as keyboards, I am currently using a goldtouch split keyboard to get away from horizontal wrist positions. I agree that the apple wireless keyboard looks nice but I am hoping to find something...