BBS Goodness!

I was up late last night - I had to restart one of my servers after everyone went home. The BBS was still stuck - it would install XP, but when I went to reboot, I’d get an “operating system not found” message. Turns out the BIOS was defaulting to CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) mode, which wouldn’t work with any hard disk made after 1997, I think.

I set the motherboard to LBA, reinstalled, and it’s up and running!

Was:

Gateway PII/350
384 MB RAM
3com 3c905 NIC
20 GB ATA-33 drive
Diamond S3 video
Windows 2000

Is:

DFI Pentium 4/1.5GHZ
768 MB RAM
Intel 100/s desktop NIC
80+120GB ATA-100 drives
Nvidia Riva TNT 2 video
Windows XP

The web interface runs much faster, and music doesn’t skip, even when downloading Fidonet or usenet feeds!

Check it out! telnet/web/ftp/irc to bbs.kataan.org.

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