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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 2:20pm

Anyone interested in a scsi raid controller cheap?

I got a group to go in once before and we bought FIVE of these and they bascialy came out to a hundred bucks a piece. I tested them and flashed them all to the newest bios and shipped them out to everyone. primesuspect from this site was one of trhe five lucky guys last time.

Here is a lot of TEN I have found in Ft. Worth near me.....but they are untested and not guaranteed with only one having a stick of ram but...

They have 18 hours left and they are at 240 bucks in auction. We could get them all for 350 or so maybe.

Anybody want to go in with me and take a chance here? I need like 5 or 6 guys to put up 50 bucks a piece and lets see if we can get these suckers and enough working ones for one a piece and sell the others if they work to get our mony back, If all ten happened to work we could have 6 good ones to keep and sell the other 4 for maybe 400 bucks and the six good ones would cost nothing.

Who wants a megaraid Elite 1600 controller? These are the ones I keep posting ATTO's like this one from.

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primesuspect

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25 Jul 2003, 2:26pm

And in case anyone has any doubts, this guy doesn't screw around - he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money - I got a $1000 caching raid controller for $100. Trust Tex, this is a good deal.

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TheLostSwede

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25 Jul 2003, 2:36pm

I vote for this guy as well and he knows his stuff.
I am interested Tex. Is there any chance to have one sent to Europe?

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primesuspect

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25 Jul 2003, 2:38pm

Just so you know Mack, I've sent PCI cards to the UK before for as little as $7.00.. So, I'm sure sending one to you won't cost much, probably under $20. luckily, they are very light

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 2:45pm

I'll ship anywhere that someone wants to pay the shipping for Bud.

I ship to the North Pole if you can line up a dog sled team. last time I got them shipped to me, tested them and flashed them etc... and then shipped them out to each of the other five guys.

These ten are NOT GUARANTEED so we are taking a chance but hopefully some of them work. If it got down to it and lets say only 5 worked and we had 5 guys and me in on the deal... I will step out of the deal and let you guys have them if you pay my share as I already have two anyway. But right now they are only at 240 bucks so they are 25 bucks a piece basicaly. If they end up at 300 bucks and only THREE work we did ok really as for 100 bucks a pop these are outrageous controllers. These do not include the ram but they take ecc (or non ecc) sdram. They say ecc but I ran my first one with ecc ram and it functioned fine.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 2:50pm

primesuspect said
he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money -.

LMAO. Wild ass ****ing cliams huh? LMAO.

probably did have ya worried last tikme. I never even thought of it as wild ass claims as I had worked with these so much and knew what a deal they were.

btw.... Did you see that huge ass rack of scsi driovers and cases I scored for free?

Robin comes into the office arae now and screams and high tails her butt right back out of there.

I want to sell some of that crap and get a couple nice computer rack chassis for the duallys I keep putting off.

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primesuspect

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25 Jul 2003, 2:53pm

Yeah I saw the thread about your amazing discovery at that company that was going under

You got so lucky with that deal, man!

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TheLostSwede

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25 Jul 2003, 2:55pm

I need it shipped as a gift under 30 bucks if thats possible. Norweigan customs suck donkey.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 2:59pm

I'll wrap it up and make it a B-Day gift of you want dude. Will include a B-Day card and a dollar bill from Aunt Martha too if ya want.

Tex

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primesuspect

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25 Jul 2003, 3:01pm

lol! Now THAT would be something to see. Gee Aunt Martha, that's quite an astute gift you got old Marcus there! How did you know I needed a 64bit PCI Caching RAID controller?

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Shorty

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25 Jul 2003, 3:01pm

Tex said

primesuspect said
he made this wild ass claim last time and it turned out he was right on the money -.

LMAO. Wild ass ****ing cliams huh? LMAO.

Tex

Yes!! LMAO. Tex, you have the best eye for a bargain EVER. Period.

Seriously anyone interested, Tex will flash em, test em and see you right

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25 Jul 2003, 3:02pm

primesuspect said
Yeah I saw the thread about your amazing discovery at that company that was going under You got so lucky with that deal, man!

They were not going under. They had stored some of their older stuff in this building and they got the buiilding when they bought out one of their competitors. This is a HUGE printing company with million dollar heidelberg presses. They replaced that 12 rack scsi pile with a single rack of modern 73gb drives.

But that DLT library is making me cry. The buddy found it and laid claim before I saw it....

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 3:04pm

We need money up and in place in 18 hours. Clock is ticking here guys... If we don't get enough people and the ones already in don't want to go above 50 bucks I just PayPal the money right back to ya. Same if we don't win the auction.

I don't have to have the money to bid.. But I need only firm guys that won't back out cause if we win the money has to get moved so we can pay pretty quick. Would prefer guys that I know from one of the sites I post on just so I know they are serious and in for the ride.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 3:08pm

Dazzling ehhhhh.

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Shorty

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25 Jul 2003, 3:13pm

Tex said
Dazzling ehhhhh.

Goddamn it! Don't you hate it when someone just dangles that carrot that little bit closer!

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 3:16pm

Makes me want to wet my pants and I own two of these already for christ sake.

I'm the LAST guy that needs one... But "want" and "need" seem to be hard for me to seperate.

I bet flintstone goes in again. With Mackanz thats two if he is serious.

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t1rhino

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25 Jul 2003, 3:23pm

If I didn't need the money for my wedding, I would buy a couple.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 3:25pm

rhino.... tisk tisk tisk....

trust me here... wives come and wives go but raid controllers last a lifetime!

Just Kidding Congrats on the wedding man !

Tex

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t1rhino

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25 Jul 2003, 3:43pm

Hopefully, this one will last a long time.
It's just so tempting to get the raid controller.

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t1rhino

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25 Jul 2003, 3:46pm

Maybe if you could find a deal on some scsi drives it would be too tempting to pass up.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 3:50pm

I pay about 45 bucks a pop for the Atlas 10k III's. The fuji maps are getting cheaper and are much faster but still more expensice too.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:06pm

This guy isnt far from my house. I emailed asking if I could test a couple. I just want to see the scsi bios show up and know they are not dead. If I tested two or three even and they showed the bios I would feel a lot better about the deal.

I bet he does not let me test them though but it was worth a try.

Tex

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 4:18pm

he's got a good feedback rating. Doesn't seem like he's trying to screw people over. hopefully he lets you check 'em out. Count me in, I want one. wanna feel that 15k speed!

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 4:20pm

btw, these take standard SDRAM? does it have to be 128MB too?

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 4:23pm

aaahhhhh damn it! it requires a 64 bit PCI slot doesn't it? ARRRGHGHRHHRG...

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:26pm

No they fit in 32 or 64 bit slots. I have never tested performance in a 32bit slot to be honest though.

They take normal sdram. It really wants ecc stuff. But I ran mine without. It was picky about the number of chips and crap on it to see it right. I finally thru a 512mb stick in that it saw as 128mb. I tried a 256 it saw as 64 etc... The online docs detail exactly what the stick should be.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:28pm

kanezfan said
he's got a good feedback rating. Doesn't seem like he's trying to screw people over. hopefully he lets you check 'em out. Count me in, I want one. wanna feel that 15k speed!

And none of my drives are 15k. The differance in speed versus noice isnt real big on older drives. Some of the older 15k drives had a pretty nasty whine to them and they run HOT too.

The new 15k's are much much better. If you buy used you might want to stick to 10k drives.

I love the Atlas 10k III's. Dead quiet and not to hot.

Tex

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 4:30pm

even if used on a 32 bit PCI slot, (btw, my KX7-raid doesn't have a 64 bit PCI slot does it?

) it should still be noticeably faster than a 7200 RPM raid-0 array shouldn't it?

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TheLostSwede

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25 Jul 2003, 4:32pm

Tex said
No they fit in 32 or 64 bit slots. I have never tested performance in a 32bit slot to be honest though.

They take normal sdram. It really wants ecc stuff. But I ran mine without. It was picky about the number of chips and crap on it to see it right. I finally thru a 512mb stick in that it saw as 128mb. I tried a 256 it saw as 64 etc... The online docs detail exactly what the stick should be.

Tex

Can it be a singlesided versus a doublesided issue? I think it MAY only like singlesided ones.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:35pm

I think most the ones I was trying were single sided. The two I have running here are both using the battery backed sticks of ram. I can read ya off chip numbers or anything you want off them though.

Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:37pm

Everyone can absolutely trust Tex for this. Tex always delivers but just be patient. I waited a good long time for my purchase from him...actually it was from a member named FLINTSTONE who shipped it to Tex while he tested it. He found 3 drives for me and then added personal items to the package that he eventually shipped to me.

Tex went above and beyond. Everything arrived under the radar of customs and it was all incredibly well packed in foam.

Five stars for buying off Tex. Make sure you put a little extra in there to buy him a beer or two. Don't be afraid of shipping him a check in advance either. He'll deliver!

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 4:37pm

well what the hell, count me in, If it doesn't impress me as much as I think it will, I can always auction it back and triple my money.

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Gargoyle

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25 Jul 2003, 4:43pm

So tempting, so tempting. Gotta save my money though. If I wasn't trying to make it across the pond, I'd jump on it! My current SCSI setup is lackluster to say the least.

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gtghm

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25 Jul 2003, 4:45pm

Are these the 493 LSI MegaRaid 1600 Eletes?

If so count me in. What do you need from me?

It would snuggle nicely into one of my 64bit PCI slots on my dual Xeon rig

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:47pm

Gargoyle said
So tempting, so tempting. Gotta save my money though. If I wasn't trying to make it across the pond, I'd jump on it! My current SCSI setup is lackluster to say the least.

may I twist the knife just a little harder then?

here is an atto off a SINGLE scsi drive that normally hits 60,000 on atto on a normal controller....

Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 4:53pm

gtghm said
Are these the 493 LSI MegaRaid 1600 Eletes?

If so count me in. What do you need from me?

"g"

They are Dell Perc3's. Same thing. I take them and flash them with the straight LSI bios's. This is what we bought a lot of Five of before that Prime and flintstone and everyone got. Both the dell perc3's and Gateway ADAC controllers are just Elite 1600's with other firmware. I flash them to the latest LSI bios.

If we get these I will test each one and flash the ones that work to the newest LSI bios before shipping. When I test them I attach drives... build a raid array and benchmark it as part of the testing guys so we know both channels on the controller are OK and stuff. I don't just turn it on and see if the bios comes up. I actually test each one thouroughly before giving it the Tex stamp of approval and package them for shipment to you. Last time the whole deal took less then 48 hours to test them and shipp them I think.

If you have not ever messed with scsi we can do a deal Like I did for mediaMan and setup drives, cables termiknators, and the whole deal for ya if ya want. Basicaly you plug it in as per my instructions and I include drivers and everything for ya etc..

tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:04pm

Tex said

gtghm said
Are these the 493 LSI MegaRaid 1600 Eletes?

If so count me in. What do you need from me?

"g"

They are Dell Perc3's. Same thing. I take them and flash them with the straight LSI bios's. This is what we bought a lot of Five of before that Prime and flintstone and everyone got. Both the dell perc3's and Gateway ADAC controllers are just Elite 1600's with other firmware. I flash them to the latest LSI bios.

If we get these I will test each one and flash the ones that work to the newest LSI bios before shipping. When I test them I attach drives... build a raid array and benchmark it as part of the testing guys so we know both channels on the controller are OK and stuff. I don't just turn it on and see if the bios comes up. I actually test each one thouroughly before giving it the Tex stamp of approval and package them for shipment to you. Last time the whole deal took less then 48 hours to test them and shipp them I think.

If you have not ever messed with scsi we can do a deal Like I did for mediaMan and setup drives, cables termiknators, and the whole deal for ya if ya want. Basicaly you plug it in as per my instructions and I include drivers and everything for ya etc..

tex

Cool sounds like a deal too me...

I like the fact that you'll be putting them through the Tex Olympics.

That would be all I need and the drivers of cource... :grin
I don't have any SCSI drives yet.
I was just holding out to get them until I could find a deal on the SCSI card.
So I'd just get the card now and keep it till I find a deal on drives later...
Let me know what you need, I'm in for sure on this...

Thanks,
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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:08pm

Everyone think hard about this one more time as these are not guarateed. We HOPE to at the least get one per person. If we get 7 guys to chip in 50 bucks for a 350 bid and lets say only FIVE work... I'll step down and one other guy will have to also... In this scenario I guess you draw straws BUT the remaining five that get one need to kick in another 20 a piece to pay us back for steppiong back. So your total would be 70 then not 50. But by the same totken we could get lucky and all ten work. So everyone gets one and we sell the other three and you almost get yours for free.

So there is a risk here and everyone needs to see that and gulp hard once and make up you mind once and for all.

I have another buddy that says he is in. I am in for sure.

Anyone that can quote this post I just made so I know you are reading the risks and see what could happen and still wants in should post below here and use the QUOTE BUTTON so I know you read thisand still want in.

You may pay a little over 50 depending on how many work. You may pay almost NOTHING depending on how many work. It works both ways. Do ya feel luicky and still want to play?

Post below and let me know. These list for $1000. Its a gamble but I think its worth it.

Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:11pm

Tex said
Everyone think hard about this one more time as these are not guarateed. We HOPE to at the least get one per person. If we get 7 guys to chip in 50 bucks for a 350 bid and lets say only FIVE work... I'll step down and one other guy will have to also... In this scenario I guess you draw straws BUT the remaining five that get one need to kick in another 20 a piece to pay us back for steppiong back. So your total would be 70 then not 50. But by the same totken we could get lucky and all ten work. So everyone gets one and we sell the other three and you almost get yours for free.

So there is a risk here and everyone needs to see that and gulp hard once and make up you mind once and for all.

I have another buddy that says he is in. I am in for sure.

Anyone that can quote this post I just made so I know you are reading the risks and see what could happen and still wants in should post below here and use the QUOTE BUTTON so I know you read thisand still want in.

You may pay a little over 50 depending on how many work. You may pay almost NOTHING depending on how many work. It works both ways. Do ya feel luicky and still want to play?

Post below and let me know. These list for $1000. Its a gamble but I think its worth it.

Tex

I'm in

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t1rhino

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25 Jul 2003, 5:15pm

Where is a good place to find inexpensive scsi drives?
One of the cheaper stores near me sell an Atlas 10k III 18gb for $95 CDN. Is that a decent price?

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25 Jul 2003, 5:15pm

Tex said
may I twist the knife just a little harder then?

here is an atto off a SINGLE scsi drive that normally hits 60,000 on atto on a normal controller....

Tex

Yeoow! Well, if I had a 64-bit slotted motherboard (actually I do, but it's on a POS SGI Pentium 2 box) and money for a couple of SCSI drives, I'd do it. But alas...

Maybe one day I will and I can buy one off you after you've accumulated another dozen or so

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25 Jul 2003, 5:17pm

t1rhino said
Where is a good place to find inexpensive scsi drives?
One of the cheaper stores near me sell an Atlas 10k III 18gb for $95 CDN. Is that a decent price?

I pay 40 to 45 bucks usually on ebay. I don't know the exchange rate etc.. Buit for new drives wikth no shipping etc.. that may be good for canada.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:18pm

Gargoyle said

Tex said
may I twist the knife just a little harder then?

here is an atto off a SINGLE scsi drive that normally hits 60,000 on atto on a normal controller....

Tex

Yeoow! Well, if I had a 64-bit slotted motherboard (actually I do, but it's on a POS SGI Pentium 2 box) and money for a couple of SCSI drives, I'd do it. But alas...

Maybe one day I will and I can buy one off you after you've accumulated another dozen or so

Actaully that pent2 box with 64bit slots would be a sweet server.

I'll trade ya for a dual pnet2/3 board with no 64bit slots?

tex

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:20pm

gtghm said

Tex said
Everyone think hard about this one more time as these are not guarateed. We HOPE to at the least get one per person. If we get 7 guys to chip in 50 bucks for a 350 bid and lets say only FIVE work... I'll step down and one other guy will have to also... In this scenario I guess you draw straws BUT the remaining five that get one need to kick in another 20 a piece to pay us back for steppiong back. So your total would be 70 then not 50. But by the same totken we could get lucky and all ten work. So everyone gets one and we sell the other three and you almost get yours for free.

So there is a risk here and everyone needs to see that and gulp hard once and make up you mind once and for all.

I have another buddy that says he is in. I am in for sure.

Anyone that can quote this post I just made so I know you are reading the risks and see what could happen and still wants in should post below here and use the QUOTE BUTTON so I know you read thisand still want in.

You may pay a little over 50 depending on how many work. You may pay almost NOTHING depending on how many work. It works both ways. Do ya feel luicky and still want to play?

Post below and let me know. These list for $1000. Its a gamble but I think its worth it.

Tex

I'm in

Your number 3. Is kanez and Mackanz stikll in ? If so they are 3 and 4. I will hold one for Flintstone as I bet he wants in so spots are filling fast.

Tex

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t1rhino

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25 Jul 2003, 5:21pm

How many controllers are for sale? How many do you reckon will work?
Would 128mb PC133 work on the controller?

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 5:27pm

I'm in.

Anyone that can quote this post I just made so I know you are reading the risks and see what could happen and still wants in should post below here and use the QUOTE BUTTON so I know you read thisand still want in.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:30pm

t1rhino said
How many controllers are for sale? How many do you reckon will work?
Would 128mb PC133 work on the controller?

Ten for sale in the auction. The right piece of regular sdram works. They say use ecc. I ran mine on regular sdram for awhile though. As I pointed out it is picky about the chips on it as far as being able to see the total amount of ram correctly.

The gamble is we don't know how many work. Its a crap shoot.

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Tex

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25 Jul 2003, 5:34pm

All I can add is that the guy has over 450+ transactikons on eBay and when you look thru the feedback teh only complaint showing just about is his response to someone that bitched and he claimed the guy tried to return a differant drive then the one he sold him as he marks his products. So its hard to know but he seems like a honest seller not a fly by night sorta guy.

We could get very very lucky or .... well you get the picture.

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kanezfan

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25 Jul 2003, 5:40pm

or they could all crap out and we're stuck with dead controller cards. Not a horrible gamble, depending on how much they end up selling for.

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25 Jul 2003, 5:45pm

Short-Media Disclaimer:

Tex is great at finding these deals but be aware that this lot features items that are not guaranteed. This is at buyer's risk. Tex nor Short-Media are not responsible for items that do not live up to expectations or are DOA. While the lot may be of items that were working at the tiem of pull...they are not 100% guaranteed.

I do know that Tex will most likely spend the time to test and upgrade each controller he gets. He is very good at taking care of people.

Those of you who are purchasing I do know it would help out Tex immensely if cashier's checks or personal checks were mailed to Tex in advance. He, like the rest of us, is not made of money and it is difficult to carry the cost of shipping to up to 10 buyers before receiving checks.

Please work out details with Tex in advance.

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