>Ed,
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>PMFJI. You are a great source of hardware\network information. Are there any other resources you might suggest for this type of info? (web sites, books?)
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Books: Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Scott Mueller. If you don't own, you shoudl and you should buy a new copy whenever he revises. The basic tome on hardware that can't be done without.

The Book of SCSI, A Guide for Adventurers by Peter Ridge. Explains SCSI concepts very well. Getting a bit dated - it's two years old now.

Depending on how far you want to get into the sand, there are some excellent, high technical content books on various PC architectures. Don't go in unless you aren't afraid of EE in general, oscilliscopes and logic probes. A good publisher for this sort of stuff is Annabooks.

I have to do a tremendous amount of reading to stay moderately current.

Web sites: Tom's Hardware Page Best of breed hardware topics, focused on component-level stuff. Great links. Excellent reviews, and not too demanding technically.

The Intel Secrets Home Page The Intel architecture from a programming perspective. If Dr. Dobbs Journal is not an approachable magazine, this is not a great site. If you want the lowdown on bugs in the Intel processors, and the details of the instruction set, this is home.

Adaptec Home Page Aside from being my SCSI vendor of choice, Adaptec is a leader in PC/micro system storage architectures. There are lots of whitepapers describing storage technologies in detail. From my POV, if you're going to do SCSI on a PC-compatible platform, they're one of the only players worth serious consideration (the other is Mylex, who bought BusLogic) - they've bought up most of the serious competition, including DPT, which was acquired to add some mid-level RAID products to the lineup. I sysoped for them when they ran a forum on CSi.

Magazines: Depends on how far into the hardware you want to go. I read a whole lot.