No-Touch , Hard Drive imaging (Complete Back-UP)

I just wanted to make this short post,

The server I built that is now the primary activant sco unix server...

well because its modern hardware it supports booting from usb, and because i am also

the master of Apple OSX, this computer will boot osx right from a USB 2.0 external 

harddrive.

so do a powerdwn-

then plug in your Trusty External Hard Drive, Tap F-12  for boot menu, boot OSX, then

Feel free to DD your SCO Drive with out even removing it from the machine!

then just shut down the computer and disconnect the USB External, Flip Back on and

server comes back up, only now, you have a Bit by Bit flawless image of the hard drive.

and while you are at it, Compress the image, it will go from 40 gigs to just 1.5 gigs compressed!

This idea was not all my own, the owner sat down and we came up with it,  Sometimes its

good to have a time out and toss your ideas out there!

Your End of DAY Queue

This Queue was constructed by a devoted hard-core Level2 support dude :)

it took the guy over 2 hours to set up, the previous computer guy before me

had a really back asswards EOD Queue configured, he had some of the same things running 3 times from 3 different queue's... every night, just total stupidity, or a total case of the IDGAF syndrome! 

before our boot log was close to 3 pages long

now it all prints up on one nice neat page, and everything listed in the log makes total sense, unlike the total mess of confusion before.

i have to give credit where its due. My Hats off to level 2 Support,  

nightly backup

1.
Tape Backup

2.
Reports run / finish / print/spool

3.
system reboots

The same process every night!

incase you didnt already know, if the listener for report printing is not working properly
your reports will sit in the QUE, and not finish,

Listener does crash! keep a eye on it, we have a windows server that runs it,
the App is not the most stable thing!

The Only Unique hardware -

The only some-what unique hardware in these servers, everything else is just normal desktop/workstation class hardware, (non server)

No ECC, no XEON, No SCSI boot drive or Raid, Nothing FANCY!

e3H Nic 3COM 3C590CX-TXM

Tandberg SLR7 20/40 GB SCSI Tape Back-UP

SCSI Adaptec 29160, 32bit / 64bit PCI SCSI Card

Yes they inserted this card into a standard 32-bit pci slot with

half of the card hanging out, exposed.

RS 232 Serial Card for Legacy Terminals

Stallion Technology's EasyIO 4 Port

Totally Not Needed, But if you have legacy terminals,

Then yes. 

i guess when you buy these servers its all about the software, because the hardware is totally nothing special or something that would warrant spending 10k 20k 30k 40k on a " SERVER "

From a hardware perspective this is a normal desktop / workstation with a few cards added.

Making a clone of your Activant SCO Unix Server

A intel main board with PCI slots would be nice.
945G or higher north bridge, just stay with in the socket 775 realm.

The SCO Unix kernel is multi cpu ready, the activant
applications are not threaded all that well. so you are not going
to get much of a benefit with more then 2 core's



The most important items are:
EIDE Hard drive - you can still buy these new
Intel or 3COM 3C905CX  10/100 network card's / No Support for gigabit!
Intel CPU Core2duo or the e3300, the e3300 is very strong chip for low money! $39
hopefully you choose one faster then what you already using.

more e3300 info, running this older software, it would vastly benefit from
a fast CPU clock, this cpu will run at 3.3ghz to 3.6ghz all day long rock solid stable,
just get some better cooling on this bad boy.





Ram, anything more then 1 gig will be kind of over kill,
however, Dual Channel DDR2 ram would add some extra speed for sure!

Adaptec SCSI card 29160, this is like the only SCSI card that works with SCO 5.05

so if you want your tape back up drive to work make sure you hit ebay and buy one,

also get your self a replacement tape drive as well. Also, the os will boot and function fine

with out this card in, just keep in mind, your backup's are not going to be written to tape.

Cards in the server that you might not need or even use,

EASY IO card, you may or may not be using this,
if you don't have this card installed, the os will still work and
boot just fine!

MODEM / Fax PCI card, - again the os will boot fine and function with out this card in there.

Don't build some big huge 1366 i7 monstrosity, to run your 1999 SCO Unix, you will feel
silly when it doesn't work at all, this stuff is just too new and will cause the os to kernel panic.
Unless you are going to virtualize :)

As a good resource you can always spend a couple minutes and browse through
the narrow band of drivers available that SCO has on their ftp site.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/drivers/OSR505

read some of the TEXTS, keep in mind this is a server os :-), or should i say that i have to keep
this in mind, :-D

Every Network Access Function

I had to copy and paste these in by hand, i know of no other way to do this.

Sometimes you just need to log in and do little things like change the printer ip address(MPS)

or look and see the status of any reports that are running RABO, Or if you type in OSPREY and the

password, you can type in NTA,

To see your Network Terminal Assignment.

ACTIVANT ( EAGLE ) ALL NETWORK ACCESS FUNCTIONS

AADM Vendor Auto Distribution Maintenance |

AAMU A/P Invoice Adjustment | 5:03 PM

ABMU Bank Code File Maintenance |---------

ABO Abort Report |

ACESKU Maintain Ace Auto-SKU Options |

ACKR Check Reconciliation |

ACMU Terms Code File Maintenance |

ACON A/P Control File Maintenance |L:556

ADMT A/P Valid G/L Account File Maintenance |

AGREDIT

AGRIS EDIT TRXS

AJMT Job File Maintenance |

APCM Check Processing | 5:03 PM

APCT Clear Vendor YTD Accumulators |---------

APGI Purge A/P Invoice Files |

APMM Manual Payments Processing |

APMU Payment Preparation |

APNUTL Alternate Part # Utility |

APP Purchasing to AP Passoff |L:556

APPC Post Checks and Print Check Register |

APPM Void Posted Checks

APPV Post Transactions to A/P Files |

APRI Reset A/P Invoice File | 5:03 PM

APRM Recurring Voucher Processing |---------

APUM Void Unposted Checks |

APVM Purge Temporary Vendors |

ASYMSG Async Transmission Log |

ASYUTL Async Communication Utility |

ATC Asynchronous Transmission Controller |L:556

ATMU New A/P Transaction Processing |

AUDITIC Audit IC File and IN File

AUDITIP Audit Inventory Prices |

AUDITITR Audit Inventory Transaction Register | 5:03 PM

AUDITO Audit Quantity on Order |---------

AUDITQ Audit Committed Quantity |

AUDITRL Audit Released Quantity |

AUDITRS Audit Reserved Quantity |

AUDITSPL Audit Spooled Report Index |

AVIQ Vendor Account Inquiry |L:556

BACKUP Backup All Data Files to Tape |

BAPURGE Business Advisor Data Purge

BAUTIL Business Advisor Utility |

BDI Build Description Indexes | 5:03 PM

BLDMRS Build Sample MRS Data |---------

BMDPURGE Business Advisor Department Data Purge |

BOP Back Office Inventory Posting |

BPO Combine Purchase Order |

BSUTL Bisync Support Utility |

BTC Async/Bisync Transmission Controller |L:556

BTCMSG Bisync Transmission Log |

CATDIF

CCJ Change Customer To Job |

CCL Change Class | 5:03 PM

CCN Change Customer Number |---------

CCR Create Customer Refresh |

CDE Change Department |

CDT Change System Date / Time |

CEQ Create an End-of-Day Report Queue |

CFI Change Fineline |L:556

CFR Create File Refresh |

CHECKEOD Check End-of-Day Report Status

CIG Change Item Groups |

CIPF Copy InfoPlus Prices | 5:03 PM

CIR Create Inventory Refresh |---------

CLEANAN Audit Alternate Part Number File |

CLEANIS Clean IS Records |

CLEANOD Audit Order Detail File |

CLEANRQ Initialize the Report Queue |

CONFIG Create Boot Install Floppy |L:556

CONNECT Connect to Remote System Utility |

COPYRECS Copy Records to New Store

CPO Copy Purchase Order |

CPOS Contractor Point-of-Sale | 5:03 PM

CPP Category Pricing Plans |---------

CRSNUTL Customer Sort Name Utility |

CSNUTL Cotter Satellite Network Utility |

DAT Display System Date / Time |

DCA Display Customer Account |

DCD Display Cash Drawer |L:556

DEF Report Format Definition |

DISKUSG Show Disk Usage

DRILL Build Drilldown Indexes |

DV Double Vision | 5:03 PM

EDIBTC EDI Transmission |---------

EDIRP EDI Receipt Posting |

EDITOR Text Editor |

EDM Electronic Direct Mail Transmission |

EDS Electronic Direct Ship Transmission |

EDSRP Electronic Direct Ship Receipt Posting |L:556

EFM Electronic File Maintenance |

EFMW EFM From Source Other Than Transmissio

EIC Electronic Item Cross Reference Update |

EIMCS Electronic IMCS Data Transmission | 5:03 PM

ELR Electronic Line Review Transmission |---------

EMD Electronic Market Download |

EMP Electronic Market PO |

EMPW EMP From Source Other Than Transmission|

EOPO Electronic Open PO Download |

EPC Electronic Price Changes |L:556

EPDC Electronic POS Data Transmission |

EPM Electronic Promotion Transmission

EPO Electronic Purchase Order |

ERF Electronic Retail Finelines | 5:03 PM

ERP Electronic Receipt Posting |---------

ESLPO Electronic Ship Later PO Download |

EVPT Electronic Variable Price Tracking |

EXPORTRQ |

FAXADM Fax Administration |

FAXMEMO Fax Memo |L:556

FAXQUE Outbound Fax Queue |

FDELETE Finance Charge Deletion Utility

FIL Flexible Inventory Load |

FLOPPY Create Boot Install Floppy | 5:03 PM

FXSRT Fix Sort Key In Customer Record |---------

GBCM Budget Code Maintenance |

GBUC Copy Budgets |

GBUM Budget Maintenance |

GCMP Compress General Ledger Trx File |

GCMU Chart of Accounts Maintenance |L:556

GCON G/L Control File Change/Inquire |

GDE Department File Graph

GDMU Distribution Code File Maintenance |

GGMU General Journal Trx Processing | 5:03 PM

GINQ General Ledger Account Inquiry |---------

GLAC Copy Chart of Accounts |

GLCA Recalculate Financial Summary Amounts |

GLCO Company Consolidation |

GLEM Financial Entity Maintenance |

GLLC Copy Financial Statement layouts |L:556

GLLG Generate SAF Layouts |

GLLR Resequence Financial Statement Layouts

GLMU Financial Statement Layout Maintenance |

GLP Automatic Passoff To General Ledger | 5:03 PM

GLSM Statement Specifications Maintenance |---------

GPO Create Purchase Ords. From Special Ords.|

GRMU Accounting Period Maintenance |

GRTRX Grain Transactions Upload |

GSJU Recurring Journal Trx Processing |

GSMU Select and Print Financial Statements |L:556

GTMT Financial Statement Text File Maint. |

GYEN Year-End Procedure

HCCVISTA Ace Data Warehouse Collection Constants |

HHCADD Add SKUs for HHC Coupons and Certificate| 5:03 PM

HHCID Assign HHC ID Numbers to Customer Record|---------

HHCSRT Update MCR Sort Name for HHC Customers |

HOURS Hours Calculator |

HWIPRCS Create HWI Pricing File |

IAD Inventory Adjustments |

ICINSTAL Install IC Verify Credit Authorization |L:556

IMPORTRQ |

IMU Inventory Record Maintenance

INFO Show File Information |

IPC Item Price Change | 5:03 PM

IQR Item Quick Reference |---------

ISH Item Sales History |

ISI Item Status Inquiry |

IST Interstore Transfers |

LOADCAT Load Triad Catalog |

LOD Inventory Item Load |L:556

LOGBACK Rlogin into Backup System |

LOGMAIN Rlogin into Main System

LTMRG Process FastStart Tape |

MAP Modify Alternate Part Number | 5:03 PM

MBA Modify Business Advisor Constants |---------

MBC Maintain Backup System Configuration |

MCL Modify Class Record |

MCPORT Modify Communication Port |

MCR Customer/Job File Maintenance |

MCT A/R Control File Maintenance |L:556

MDE Modify Department Record |

MDT Modify Period Date Table

MED Maintain Extended Description Group |

MEQ Maintain End-of-Day Report Queues | 5:03 PM

MFI Modify Fineline Record |---------

MFR A/R Flex Report Format Maintenance |

MIC Modify Inventory Constants |

MIG MAINTAIN ITEM GROUPS |

MIP Modify Item Promotion |

MIV Modify Invoice Constants |L:556

MKR Modify Kit Record |

MMH Modify Main Menu Header

MMR Modify Monthly Recap |

MOI Open Item File Maintenance | 5:03 PM

MOP Minimum Order Point Utility |---------

MPC Modify Purchase Order Constants |

MPH Modify Physical Inventory Shrinkage Hist|

MPI Modify Physical Inventory Constants |

MPM Modify Price Matrix |

MPO Modify Purchase Order |L:556

MPOA Modify Purchase Order All Stores |

MPS Modify Printer Status

MQB Modify Quantity Break |

MQK Modify QuickRecall Constants | 5:03 PM

MQS Maintain AutoPilot Schedules |---------

MSC Modify Multiple Systems Constants |

MSD Modify Short Description |

MSE Modify Security File |

MSL Salesperson File Maintenance |

MSO Modify System Parameters |L:556

MSP Maintain Spooled Reports |

MSR Modify Store Record

MSY Modify System Parameters |

MTC Maintain Transmission Control Stream | 5:03 PM

MTM Terms Code File Maintenance |---------

MTR Modify Terminal Record |

MTX Tax Code Maintenance |

MUM Unit of Measure Table Maintenance |

MUPC Modify Universal Product Code |

MUR Modify User Record |L:556

MUW Unit Of Weight Table Maintenance |

MVR Vendor File Maintenance

NEX Inventory Next and Attribute Selection |

OSPREY System Utilities | 5:03 PM

OVR Manager Override @ POS |---------

PCF Calculate Purchasing Conversion Factor |

PCO Show Software Level |

PDO Paid Out Reason Maintenance |

PIP Physical Inventory Posting |

POR Purchase Order Resequencing |L:556

POS Point-of-Sale |

PQ Part Query

PRCKR Price Checker |

PRO Price Rounding | 5:03 PM

QPIP Quick Physical Inventory Posting |---------

QUE Report Queue Maintenance |

QUIT Logoff System |

QUITCRT Quit Active Terminal |

QV QuickView |

RA99 Print Federal 1099 Forms |L:556

RAAC Print Manual and Prepaid Check Register |

RAAJ Post Adjustments to A/P Files

RAAN Print Vendor Analysis Report |

RAAU Print Vendor Audit Trail Report | 5:03 PM

RABC Bank Code File Maintenance |---------

RABO Abort Report |

RAC Report Average Cost Utility |

RACH Print Check History Report |

RACK Check Processing |

RACR Print Cash Requirements Report |L:556

RADS Print G/L Accounts List |

RAG A/R Aging Report

RAGL Print A/P Distribution to G/L Report |

RAID Print Invoice Deferral Report | 5:03 PM

RAJ AGRIS TRANSACTION JOURNAL |---------

RAJB Print Job List |

RAJD Print Job Distribution Report |

RAMP Manual Payment Processing |

RAOI Print A/P Open Item Report |

RAP Alternate Part Number Report |L:556

RAPC Print Pre-Check Writing Report |

RAPU Print A/P Check Reconciliation Report

RARV Print Recurring Vouchers List |

RATC Terms Code File Maintenance | 5:03 PM

RATJ Post Transactions to A/P Files |---------

RAUC Print A/P Unposted Check List |

RAVA Print Vendor List Alphabetically |

RAVC Print Transaction Edit List |

RAVG Average Cost Utility |

RAVH Print Vendor History Report |L:556

RAVM Print Numeric Vendor List |

RBL Bin Label Printing Report

RCA ACE Conversion Report |

RCCU Customer Code Update | 5:03 PM

RCIN Change Item Number |---------

RCK Check and Bankcard Register |

RCL Class Report |

RCPR Projected Price Report |

RDE Department Report |

RDF Flex Report Definition Report |L:556

RDI Point-of-Sale Daily Transaction Report |

RDJ Daily Journal Report

RDM Direct Mail Relay Item Report |

RDS Point Of Sale Daily Totals | 5:03 PM

REPM Electronic Promotion Report |---------

REPQMSG View Report Queue Manager Log |

RESTORE Restore Data Files From Backup Tape |

RFC Print Finance Charge Invoices |

RFD A/R Flex Report Definition Report |

RFI Fineline Report |L:556

RFL Flexible Inventory Loading Report |

RFMENU RF Menu

RFPOS RF POS from Main Menu |

RFR A/R Flexible Report (format YTDROLL) | 5:03 PM

RFRP RF Receiving from Main Menu |---------

RGBC Budget Code Maintenance |

RGBU Print Budgets |

RGEN Print Financial Entities |

RGFS Print Financial Statements |

RGFV Financial Statement Verification |L:556

RGGC Print Chart of Accounts |

RGGD Print Distribution Codes

RGGG Post Journal Trans. to G/L Trans. File |

RGJG Post Recurring Trans. to G/L Trans. File| 5:03 PM

RGLA Print Financial Statement Layout Edits |---------

RGP GROUP PRICING REPORT |

RGRF Print Source Cross Reference |

RGSA Print Sample Statements |

RGST Print Statement Specifications |

RGTR Print Trial Balance |L:556

RGTX Print Financial Statement Edits |

RGWS Print General Ledger Worksheet

RIA Inventory Adjustment Report |

RICU Item Code Update | 5:03 PM

RIH Item Sales Report |---------

RIM Item Master Report |

RIO Open Order Item Report |

RIS Item Status Report |

RIU Inventory Update Report |

RIV Inventory Valuation Report |L:556

RKR Kit Record Report |

RLA Price Label Printing Report

RLABEL Read Backup Tape Label |

RLR Electronic Line Review Report | 5:03 PM

RMD Market Download Item Report |---------

RML Customer Mailing Labels Report |

RMR Monthly Recap Sales Report |

ROA Receipts On Account |

ROF Restocking Order Form |

ROI Return On Investment Generator |L:556

ROO CPOS Open Transaction Report |

ROP Order Point Report

ROR Restocking Order Worksheet |

RP Receipt Posting | 5:03 PM

RPA Product Analysis Report |---------

RPB Price Book Report |

RPC Price Change Report |

RPD Modify Promotion Data Report |

RPE Point Of Sale Price Exception Report |

RPH Physical Inventory History Report |L:556

RPI Physical Inventory Report |

RPM Promotional Item Report

RPO Purchase Order Format Report |

RPOS Reset Purchase Order Status | 5:03 PM

RPP Purchasing Master File Print |---------

RPV ACE Retail Price Variance Report |

RRP Receiving Report |

RRT Order Receipt Utility |

RSA Account Sales Analysis Report |

RSAL Promotional Download Item Report |L:556

RSF Security File Report |

RSH Sales History Report

RSL Salesman Report |

RSM Print Statements | 5:03 PM

RSO Suggested Order Report |---------

RSP Reprint Spooled Reports |

RST Standard Report Fields Report |

RTE Terminal File Report |

RTM Terms Code Report |

RTX Tax Information Report |L:556

RUP Update Promotion Price Report |

RUS User File Report

RVE Vendor Report |

RVL Vendor Labels | 5:03 PM

RVT Void Transaction Detail Report |---------

RVU Vendor Update Report |

SDLOAD Short Description Update |

SDUTL Short Description Utility |

SEQ Schedule End-of-day Queue |

SETRSP Set Remote Service Port |L:556

SHOWLOG View Application Logs |

SHOWTASK View System Activity

SHRINK Shrink The Inventory File |

SHUTDOWN Initiate End-of-Day Process | 5:03 PM

SIGNOFF Sign Off of Terminal |---------

SIGNON Sign On to Terminal |

SSM Start / Stop System Managers |

SSUCALC Calculate Current SSU Usage |

STARTFUM Start the File Update Manager |

STAYUP Postpone System Maintenance |L:556

STOPREPQ Stop the Report Queue Manager |

STS Show Terminal Status

TCSUTL Transmission Control Stream Utility | 5:03 PM

TESTDEV Test Device Utility |---------

TRAN Create Transfer |

TRURPE True Value RPE Upload File Utility |

TRUTL TruServ AN File Utility |

UPCUTL UPC Utility |

USHRINK United Shrink The Inventory File |L:556

WLABEL Write Backup Tape Label |

XPO Transmit Purchase Order

Virtual Box - SCO Unix Virtual Machine

Virtual Box is a Virtualizer, it allows you to run/boot all kinds of other

operating system on top of the OS you are running natively.

You can get virtual box free from here.

It just so happens that VirtualBox will boot your already DD'd image. Just rename the image to unix.hdd, what matters is the .hdd extension that way Virtual box knows to boot right from it as it would a real hard drive.

It boots the SCO Unix v. 5.05 just fine, the only issue I am having with it so far is the Intel Gigabit ethernet virtual adaptors they offer, do not work so well with SCO.

There is a intel desktop adaptor and 2 server adaptors. The Intel desktop one is the one that works somewhat, it's like it has lots of trouble, the ping times will stay mostly normal, as long as you are not asking anything from it, as soon

as you try to run pos or eagle browser or even network access it starts to drop data, any of those applications do eventually open, it just takes a minute.

So if you have any input as to why its doing this let me know,

feel free to comment on this blog! Any information would be a huge help and i would highly appreciate it. You help me and i will help you.

As you can see the virtual machine settings are pretty much basic,

SCO does not seem to be too picky.

So if we could just concentrate on getting a 10/100 3COM or INTEL Virtual Ethernet Driver added to VirtualBox we would be in business!

I already left a message on the forum with little to no

response,i guess that is what you get for using free software!

Also as a side note, with Virtual Box you don't even need a cpu that supports +VT, you don't even need a dual or quad core, although all that helps a lot with performance, the virtual machine will still run! Virtual Box will run the SCO Unix VM with just a (single core) Intel Celeron 900 cpu in my new 279 dollar laptop from micro center.

Activant Pushes the new Linux server

Before you go and toss out your trusty SCO UNIX SERVER, and spend 10k, 15k, 40k+ on a new server that you probably don't need...

think about how well your current system is working, and even if it may be a little slow, is it really worth spending X amount to speed it up, in all seriousness that is all you are doing. all applications, everything installed to the windows clients stays exactly the same, Linux or SCO.

BTW, there are many ways you can speed up your network other then replacing your server,

the Clients them selves, it costs about 200 to build a e3300 celeron computer with 2 gb ram, build up some computers install win xp, you WILL Notice massive speed increase.

upgrade your Hub to a Switch, upgrade your 10/100 Switch to a 1000, even though the NIC in the server is only 10/100 you are still massively increasing your network bandwith!

You can also replace your harddrive in your sco server! that will speed it up tons!

i have a guide on this blog that goes over how you would do that.

Here is the deal:

(From what i have found) genuine limitations with current SCO servers:

-You are limited to IDE when it comes to main boot drive

SATA is not supported

-You are limited to PCI 10/100 NIC, and pretty much only a INTEL or 3COM one at that

- The File system is not journalated, so this means power failures are much more painful with the sco system

- there is a SCSI Adaptec 29160 card in there, have not tried to boot from it, might work?

if you can deal with these limitations, witch i am , i am sure you can too!

unless you like spending money... :)

Then just make sure you keep your system powered up, running smoothly, HOOKED to a APC 1000 watt+ or something alike!

Never do a hard boot, always do a " powerdwn " from the login window if you must take the server down for any reason at all!

every time you do a hardboot, you have about a 20% chance it will not come back up!

if you do a hardboot while its trying to fix the file system(from a previous hardboot), then you have a 75% chance its not going to come back up at all...

yes it is that fragile , don't say i didn't warn you!

Change the Harddrive in the Activant SCO UNIX Server 5.05

This is what i did to change the hard drive in the 2003 7 year old activant eagle server with out any help from them.

-Log in

-Type "SHUTDOWN"

-Run all end-of-day, Back Up to tape if you have one

-type QUIT

-type "powerdwn"

-Do you wish to power down y/n

-type Y

open the case, clean it while you are in there!

pull the, in our case 40 gig eide western digital

brought it over to the mac, used a USB 2 IDE adaptor,

Image the

drive...

open terminal in mac

- type

- diskutil list

- now you see the 40 gb drive, /dev/disk0 or something like that

- type: sudo su

- dd bs=1m if=/dev/disk0 of=unix.image

- this will take some time you can follow the status of this by typing in ls -l

it will show you the size of unix.image, when it gets to 40 gb wala!

- now, unmount the 40 gig drive

- connect the new IDE drive, in my case it was a western digital blue 320gig 32mb cache

- diskutil list - just to make sure the device has not changed numbers

- dd bs=1m if=unix.image of=/dev/disk0

- you can now open up activity monitor, and click on disk activity and when it counts up to 40gig written +/- it will be complete.

this will write boot loader, Partition Table, File system everything,

here is the only limitation, that new 320 gig hard drive is now just a 40

gig, but a brand new much faster one and ready to run for years to come! hopefully!

Activant & Hardware and Software $upport

You can at any time cancel activant's support for your hardware and software!

you can continue to use the system no problem, just you cant call them for anything period.

you will not receive any more worthless upgrades and you will no longer receive a grab your ankles and take it bill every month. just use what you paid for, and try to take care of what you are already using.

keep in mind if you have to break down and call them for support they are going to get you good. So try to not put your self in a situation where your hard drive dies and all hell breaks loose, be preemptive and it will save you thousands and thousands of dollars every year!

-

Or you can email me, and i will try to help you the best i can, i would be cheaper then they are that is for sure!

-hardwaremack-at-gmail-dot-com-