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October 2008

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Mozy - Free remote data backup

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I've come across this service quite some time ago, but haven't really tried it properly till now.
But it's in fact a pretty cool service to keep your important files safe.
Basically they offer 2GB of secure online storage free of charge and a client that keeps the backed up data up to date. User can define what to backup and client uploads that to their servers regulary.
Also new virtual drive will appear in My Computer, allowing user to easily restore backup files back to the system. This way you can keep your browser bookmarks safe, your important images, music, programs, your favorite games save files (yeah, it's really annoying to play the game from start when you lose save files). It also keeps data safe in case when malware trashes your computer.
The possibilities are pretty much endless.

In addition to free limited version they also offer payable version with unlimited space.
Technically you can backup your entire computer with it! :D

Client programs support all the latest Windows systems and also Mac computers.
Thats right, even Apple is now safe from worms hehe

There is also a small trick for extra space and that is through users referal. Anyone that registers for Mozy service through existing Mozy user gets extra 512MB of space automatically and also gives extra 512MB to the one who offered you this referal link. This means that i get extra 512MB and you also get 2,5GB of space instead just 2GB when you register for Mozy!
It's a win-win scenario where we all get something :smile:

Now i would like to ask anyone who is interested in Mozy service to click my referal link below to help me gain some space and you'll also get extra 512MB right away after registering.

Mozy Referal link for RejZoR:
https://mozy.com/?ref=U8JWAL

I'd just like to thank anyone that registers for Mozy through my referal link! Thank you!

SATA disks in native Intel AHCI mode

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I've been going nuts after my SATA drives were constantly using damn PIO Mode 4 (we all hated PIO modes back in days of IDE drives) and Multi-Word Mode 2 despite having AHCI mode enabled in BIOS and all storage devices connected to Intel SATA ports on my ASUS P5Q Deluxe board. I almost decided to give up when Intel Matrix Storage poped up in my head. Went to Intel site, downloaded Intel Matrix Storage Manager (IATA85ENU.exe), installed it and rebooted. On next system boot there was a surprise waiting for me.
All storage devices were re-detected and all IDE Device or ATA Device entries in Device Manager were gone!
Only Intel ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller is there. Also all my SATA devices (2 HDD's and 1 optical drive) don't have "ATA" appended to their name anymore. Based on this, i can now assume it's actually running in native AHCI mode and not some emulated IDE/ATA crap.

SATA devices in native AHCI mode

To fix this issue we need:
- Intel chipset with appended letter "R" (like ICH10R)
- Native AHCI mode enabled in BIOS
- SATA disk drives (HDD's) and/or SATA optical devices (DVD-RW/BluRay)
- Intel Chipset Software installed (see links below)
- Intel Matrix Storage Manager installed (see links below)

DOWNLOADS:
Intel Chipset Software Utility
Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Note: Some Windows versions do not yeld any results in above links, for example selecting Windows Vista, 64-bit version that will not return any results. Just select "generic" Windows Vista* 64 instead.
Try the same for other versions, if it says there isn't any results for that selection.

I hope this will help to those with similar "problem". I was searching around, bunch of similar questions on different forums, but not a single one was ever answered.
Solution is a bit limited to Intel platform and Windows Vista, but at least you know where to start now :smile: