I'm going to share with all what I wrote to Gerald privately. If you need hardware, and if you know what you are doing, going the eBay route [sometimes for software, too] can be far better than paying more than you want to for more than you need/can use.
There is currently a lot of 3 HDDs, "old" ones between 500-800Mbytes IDE, that doesn't even have a bid placed on them -- opening bid is $25 and shipping is under $10 I'm certain there are similar bargains all over the place if you just look. I recently picked up what I turned into a working legal copy of TurboCAD for $10 including postage and handling. I also picked up at 10/100 4-port hub along with 2 PCI FastEthernet NICs, and two 20' CAT5 RJ45 cables to set up networking for under $35 [price hubs some time and see how well I did] but no driver diskette was included ... no biggie since it was Netgear and they have the most recent drivers and diagnostics, plus pdf manuals and how-to available for download. If all you know is PnP, then eBay might not be a good idea. But if you're a decent Arachne user you shouldn't have many problems as long as you check stuff out [like mfr support available on-line] before you start to bid. Even if you aren't running 'legacy' stuff, the dozerware users dump perfectly good things for next to nothing because they don't know what else to do with it. <G> I say "If I can legally 'steal' goodies I need, it would be criminal NOT to." l.d. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
