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faq
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.

Oct 4 '07 #1
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fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
This has nothing to do with C
<OT>
The other drive should be configured to recognize that it has
a slave. Look at the jumpers at the back of the drive, and
put BOTH in "CS" (cable select) and do not worry anymore
who is the master and who is the slave. If not, configure
the new drive as slave, and the old one as master with
slave.
</OT>
--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32
Oct 4 '07 #2
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
I guess the most topical answer is to try hitting it with your C book.

--
Ian Collins.
Oct 4 '07 #3
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:25:36 -0700, faq wrote:
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Definitely not here. This newsgroup is about the C programming
language. Try another one. (Maybe comp.hardware or
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage?)

--
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A hamburger is better than nothing.
Nothing is better than eternal happiness.
Therefore, a hamburger is better than eternal happiness.

Oct 4 '07 #4
faq
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for replying.

What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?

Thanks again for taking time to answer.
jacob navia wrote:
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.

This has nothing to do with C
<OT>
The other drive should be configured to recognize that it has
a slave. Look at the jumpers at the back of the drive, and
put BOTH in "CS" (cable select) and do not worry anymore
who is the master and who is the slave. If not, configure
the new drive as slave, and the old one as master with
slave.
</OT>
--
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32
Oct 4 '07 #5
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for replying.

What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)
Cable Select is a position in the set of jumpers behind the disk
drive.

Look if you do not know that, it means that you have to return to the
shop with your machine and the disk and ask the technician
to install it for you.
>
And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?
NO!

If you do that you will make a short circuit and burn the drive.
I repeat: Go to the shop with your drive and ask the technician
to do it for you!

Oct 4 '07 #6
jacob navia <ja***@nospam.orgwrites:
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>Hello Jacob-
Thanks for replying.
What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can
tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

Cable Select is a position in the set of jumpers behind the disk
drive.

Look if you do not know that, it means that you have to return to the
shop with your machine and the disk and ask the technician
to install it for you.
>And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?

NO!

If you do that you will make a short circuit and burn the drive.
I repeat: Go to the shop with your drive and ask the technician
to do it for you!
jacob, perhaps now you have a better understanding of why we
discourage answering off-topic questions here.

To the original poster: comp.lang.c is not the place to ask about
this. You probably want a newsgroup with "hardware" in its name. A
quick search of my .newsrc turns up "comp.ibm.pc.hardware",
"comp.sys.ibm-pc.hardware", and "comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage". I
know nothing about any of those newsgroups other than their names; I
suggest you go to groups.google.com to browse their archives and find
out what they discuss (assuming they're still active).

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
Oct 4 '07 #7
jacob navia wrote:
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>>
What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can
tell, there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

Cable Select is a position in the set of jumpers behind the disk
drive.

Look if you do not know that, it means that you have to return to
the shop with your machine and the disk and ask the technician
to install it for you.
>And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the
old disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that
would be unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip
to the right size and use that instead?

NO!

If you do that you will make a short circuit and burn the drive.
I repeat: Go to the shop with your drive and ask the technician
to do it for you!
This is a matter of principle. This is OFF-TOPIC on c.l.c. Your
first answer should have at least set follow-ups to
alt.comp.hardware and kept all followups away from c.l.c.

To faq: Please do not top-post. Your answer should follow (or be
intermixed with) the material you quote, after snipping anything
immaterial to that reply. Your top-post here has completely lost
the original enquiry.

Note that I have set follow-ups to alt.comp.hardware, and any
further discussion should take place there. I am deliberately
failing to add any information here.

--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Oct 5 '07 #8
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:25:36 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Jumper the drives according to this diagram:
<http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/mxo_ata_jumpers.gif>.
Oct 5 '07 #9
Keith Thompson said:

<snip>
jacob, perhaps now you have a better understanding of why we
discourage answering off-topic questions here.
Keith, I doubt very much whether he does.

--
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Email: -http://www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Oct 5 '07 #10
faq
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for the clarification.

I guess Cable Select must be called something different here on my
disk - which jumpers being set does it correspond to?

Unfortunately I bought the new disk on the internet, so I can't really
take it to be fitted... if I need more jumpers then as you advise I'll
buy them from a hardware store and not try to improvise!!

By the way, it's amazing how unhelpful most other people have been
here apart from you - I guess there are some people who just like to
moan and complain all day...

All the best!
jacob navia wrote:
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for replying.

What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

Cable Select is a position in the set of jumpers behind the disk
drive.

Look if you do not know that, it means that you have to return to the
shop with your machine and the disk and ask the technician
to install it for you.

And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?

NO!

If you do that you will make a short circuit and burn the drive.
I repeat: Go to the shop with your drive and ask the technician
to do it for you!
Oct 5 '07 #11
faq
Thanks for the link. Are you sure the jumper settings are the same for
Seagate and Maxtor? I don't want to make the wrong connections in case
I cause a short circuit.
Andy wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:25:36 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello-

My computer came with a 40GB Maxtor DiamondPlus hard disk drive. I
added an 80GB Maxtor DiamondPlus drive as a slave on the same IDE ATA
cable, but the BIOS doesn't detect the new drive. The drive itself is
functioning because I formatted it using FDISK, and if I remove the
master drive and put the new drive on to the master cable connector,
the BIOS detects it correctly. However, when I connect it to the slave
cable connector, it does not. I tried another cable, purchased new,
but it makes no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Jumper the drives according to this diagram:
<http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/mxo_ata_jumpers.gif>.
Oct 5 '07 #12
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for the clarification.

I guess Cable Select must be called something different here on my
disk - which jumpers being set does it correspond to?
It depends on the disk. Ask the manufacturer of the disk - they
should know.

>
Unfortunately I bought the new disk on the internet, so I can't really
take it to be fitted... if I need more jumpers then as you advise I'll
buy them from a hardware store and not try to improvise!!

By the way, it's amazing how unhelpful most other people have been
here apart from you - I guess there are some people who just like to
moan and complain all day...
That is because "here" is very much the wrong place to ask questions
about how disks are configured. Such questions are more likely to
get knowledgable answers elsewhere.

>
All the best!
jacob navia wrote:
>fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
Hello Jacob-

Thanks for replying.

What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

Cable Select is a position in the set of jumpers behind the disk
drive.

Look if you do not know that, it means that you have to return to the
shop with your machine and the disk and ask the technician
to install it for you.
>
And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?

NO!

If you do that you will make a short circuit and burn the drive.
I repeat: Go to the shop with your drive and ask the technician
to do it for you!
--
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
er******@student.uu.se
Oct 5 '07 #13
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:46:52 -0700, in comp.lang.c , fa*@sogetthis.com
wrote:
>What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)
Er, CS is a position of the jumpers on the drives.

<OTread the manual for your motherboard, and for the new and old
HDDs. If you don't understand how it works from there, Find a Techy
Friend.
</ot>
>And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?
You're trolling, right? If not, you shouldn't be allowed sharp
objects. Messing with the drive using a paperclip will either
electrocute you or destroy the disk and possibly your motherboard.

>jacob navia wrote:
(and yet again demonstrated why you don't attempt to answer wildly
offtopic questions)
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Oct 5 '07 #14
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:40:07 -0700, in comp.lang.c , fa*@sogetthis.com
wrote:
>Thanks for the link. Are you sure the jumper settings are the same for
Seagate and Maxtor? I don't want to make the wrong connections in case
I cause a short circuit.
Why not do a websearch, and find out who Seagate and Maxtor are? This
is NOT hte place to ask these questions...
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Oct 5 '07 #15
Mark McIntyre wrote:
Why not do a websearch, and find out who Seagate and Maxtor are?
I used to know this, but now I can't remember if they are good
Transformers or evil Decepticons...
Oct 5 '07 #16
faq
Hello Mark-

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because as
far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group - my
reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably good
people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such, so it's
really a complement to you guys technical skill!

All the best!
Mark McIntyre wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:46:52 -0700, in comp.lang.c , fa*@sogetthis.com
wrote:
What is a Cable Select? Will I need to buy one? (As far as I can tell,
there isn't one in the kit I've got here.)

Er, CS is a position of the jumpers on the drives.

<OTread the manual for your motherboard, and for the new and old
HDDs. If you don't understand how it works from there, Find a Techy
Friend.
</ot>
And do you mean that I should also change the jumpers on the old
disk? I don't have any spare jumpers, so I was hoping that would be
unncessary. Would it work if I try to cut a paperclip to the right
size and use that instead?

You're trolling, right? If not, you shouldn't be allowed sharp
objects. Messing with the drive using a paperclip will either
electrocute you or destroy the disk and possibly your motherboard.

jacob navia wrote:

(and yet again demonstrated why you don't attempt to answer wildly
offtopic questions)
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Oct 5 '07 #17
In article <11*********************@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.c om>,
<fa*@sogetthis.comwrote:
>Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group - my
reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably good
people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such, so it's
really a complement to you guys technical skill!
And C programmers drink a lot of caffinated beverages to stay awake
during long programming sprees, but that doesn't make this newsgroup
the appropriate place to ask about how to fix a particular make
of espresso machine.
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers
Oct 5 '07 #18
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:46:43 +0100, in comp.lang.c , Mark Bluemel
<ma**********@pobox.comwrote:
>Mark McIntyre wrote:
>Why not do a websearch, and find out who Seagate and Maxtor are?

I used to know this, but now I can't remember if they are good
Transformers or evil Decepticons...
Actually, they're Two-Face.... .
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Oct 5 '07 #19
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:46:52 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>Hello Jacob-

Thanks for replying.

What is a Cable Select?
One more example of why not to try to answer off-topic questions.

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Oct 5 '07 #20
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:16:55 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>Hello Mark-

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because as
far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group - my
reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably good
people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such, so it's
really a complement to you guys technical skill!
We don't need the "complement", or even a compliment. Take your
hardware questions elsewhere.

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Oct 5 '07 #21
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:20:37 -0700, Andy <1@2.3wrote:
>>Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Jumper the drives according to this diagram:
Please don't encourage wildly off-topic questions by answering them
here. Redirect the questioner to a more appropriate venue and answer
it there.

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Oct 5 '07 #22
Al Balmer <al******@att.netwrites:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:16:55 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>>Hello Mark-

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because as
far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group - my
reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably good
people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such, so it's
really a complement to you guys technical skill!

We don't need the "complement", or even a compliment. Take your
hardware questions elsewhere.
Thats two replies you have made to dead threads. Ignore or help. Simple.
Oct 5 '07 #23
Al Balmer <al******@att.netwrites:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:20:37 -0700, Andy <1@2.3wrote:
>>>Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Jumper the drives according to this diagram:

Please don't encourage wildly off-topic questions by answering them
here. Redirect the questioner to a more appropriate venue and answer
it there.
3 out of the last 5 replies in this group are you net nannying. Please. Stop.
Oct 5 '07 #24
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>
OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because
as far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group -
my reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably
good people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such,
so it's really a complement to you guys technical skill!
Nonsense. You have been told both things - move this to
alt.comp.hardware, and to stop top-posting. The purpose of
newsgroups is to keep subjects separated. Since you have refused
to co-operate you are now PLONKED here, and probably also by others
in c.l.c.

--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Oct 5 '07 #25
Richard <rg****@gmail.comwrites:
Al Balmer <al******@att.netwrites:
>On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:20:37 -0700, Andy <1@2.3wrote:
>>>>Does anyone have any suggestions of things to try? I'm tearing my hair
out here.
Jumper the drives according to this diagram:

Please don't encourage wildly off-topic questions by answering them
here. Redirect the questioner to a more appropriate venue and answer
it there.

3 out of the last 5 replies in this group are you net nannying. Please. Stop.
And another two are you whining about other people's responses.
Please. Stop.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
Oct 5 '07 #26
faq
Look pal, what the hell is your problem? I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?
CBFalconer wrote:
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because
as far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group -
my reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably
good people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such,
so it's really a complement to you guys technical skill!

Nonsense. You have been told both things - move this to
alt.comp.hardware, and to stop top-posting. The purpose of
newsgroups is to keep subjects separated. Since you have refused
to co-operate you are now PLONKED here, and probably also by others
in c.l.c.

--
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
Oct 5 '07 #27
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:10:04 -0700, fa*@sogetthis.com wrote:
>Look pal, what the hell is your problem? I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?
<Plonk>

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Oct 5 '07 #28
fa*@sogetthis.com wrote, On 05/10/07 23:10:
Look pal, what the hell is your problem?
You top posting and you posting to a completely inappropriate place.
I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?
Why is it OK for YOU to post in completely the wrong place but not OK
for people to tell you this? What gives YOU to stick YOUR ear in to a
group for discussing C asking a question that is nothing to do with C?

Oh, by the way, you have probably obliterated your chances of getting
help from the most knowledgeable people who read this group even if you
post in the correct place and they know the answer, and the people
posting suggestions are probably not the most knowledgeable here.
--
Flash Gordon
Oct 6 '07 #29
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:10:04 -0700, in comp.lang.c , fa*@sogetthis.com
wrote:
>Look pal, what the hell is your problem?
The problem is yours - you're asking offtopic questions, and to make
things worse when you're redirected to a more sensible place, you get
rude.
>I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out,
you realise you have no idea whether the advizse theyve given you
(including mine) is correct ? Since this group talks about C, not
about some random hardware, the answers you got may be utter tripe. At
least one of them was
>
what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar in?
Everyone's free to comment on your post. What gives you the right to
barge into a group, ask wildly offtopic questions, completely ignoring
local customes, and then be abusive to the regulars? Try that in your
local pub sometime, and see how long you last.

--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
Oct 6 '07 #30

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What would happen if PHP script tried to read a .txt file from disk but a cron job is concurrently modifying the same .txt file ? I'm going to use Linux. Thanks Mike
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by: Simon Harvey | last post by:
Hi everyone, I'm hoping for a little bit of advice on the following. I am in the process of making a small application that can send, receive and store email messages. The current area that I am...
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by: Jon1996 | last post by:
How do you access the volume label for a hard drive through C#? I am very much a beginner with C# at the moment and am developing a windows explorer program to help me learn. I have tried the...
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by: Carlos Lozano | last post by:
Hi, I am working on a Flash player customization. The player is ready and works when loading the swf file from disk or url. That was pretty simple using a Flash.ocx wrapper. I would like to...
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by: Daniel Corbett | last post by:
I am trying to save a file dynamically created in a webpage. I get the following headers, but cannot figure out how to save the attachment. I am basically trying to replicate what internet...
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by: glennTK | last post by:
Hello Group, I'm trying to access a single field of data from a dataset in a web form without displaying it on the form. I'm trying to write a Login form and need to equate values. Would anyone...
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by: jd_12345 | last post by:
Windows XP Pro SP2 Excel 2003 SP2 IBM DB2 Personal Edition accessing a DB2 database on an AIX server via the DB2 ODBC driver I am accessing an external DB via MS Excel using Data-->Import...
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by: pt | last post by:
Hi, i am wonderng what is faster according to accessing speed to read these data structure from the disk in c/c++ including alignment handling if we access it on little endian system 32 bits...
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by: djhulme | last post by:
Hi, I'm using GCC. Please could you tell me, what is the maximum number of array elements that I can create in C, i.e. char* anArray = (char*) calloc( ??MAX?? , sizeof(char) ) ; I've...
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by: ryjfgjl | last post by:
ExcelToDatabase: batch import excel into database automatically...
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The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC) and finishing at about 19:15 (7.15PM). In this month's session, we are pleased to welcome back...
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by: isladogs | last post by:
The next Access Europe meeting will be on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC) and finishing at about 19:15 (7.15PM). In this month's session, we are pleased to welcome back...
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by: Vimpel783 | last post by:
Hello! Guys, I found this code on the Internet, but I need to modify it a little. It works well, the problem is this: Data is sent from only one cell, in this case B5, but it is necessary that data...
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by: jfyes | last post by:
As a hardware engineer, after seeing that CEIWEI recently released a new tool for Modbus RTU Over TCP/UDP filtering and monitoring, I actively went to its official website to take a look. It turned...
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by: CloudSolutions | last post by:
Introduction: For many beginners and individual users, requiring a credit card and email registration may pose a barrier when starting to use cloud servers. However, some cloud server providers now...
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by: Defcon1945 | last post by:
I'm trying to learn Python using Pycharm but import shutil doesn't work
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by: af34tf | last post by:
Hi Guys, I have a domain whose name is BytesLimited.com, and I want to sell it. Does anyone know about platforms that allow me to list my domain in auction for free. Thank you
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by: isladogs | last post by:
The next Access Europe User Group meeting will be on Wednesday 3 Apr 2024 starting at 18:00 UK time (6PM UTC+1) and finishing by 19:30 (7.30PM). In this session, we are pleased to welcome former...

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