I have an old compac rack server sitting in the garage dual power supply one cpu though don't know the specs but it is old
On 17 August 2015 at 18:57, Peter Simmonds <peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris & Others, > > I know what it's like. Would you mind keeping an eye out for exotic > hardware, before it goes to molten media? They tend not to know much about > what they are scrapping. > > As an example, I recently pulled an ordinary looking ISA card from an > absolutely shagged old 386. This card was the basis for downloading data > from a portable ECG monitor (as used in ambulances) into a computer. > Without it the heartbeat waveform was only 8 pixels high on the LCD screen > the units have. Would have otherwise taken months to reverse-engineer the > communication these devices were using. Now I can just buy a PC104 > motherboard from ebay, install the operating system and hard-wire the card > straight on to it! > > Do let me (us?) know if anything exotic turns up, as the hardware is > needed to create drivers, which in turn could possibly end up in the linux > kernal! > > Cheers, > > Peter > > On 17/08/2015 11:55, Chris Hellyar wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > They are fine for legacy machines, but I've got a lot of spare junk and I > want the space back. :-) > > > > I go through a cylic thing where I collect parts from upgrades/repairs for > customers and think 'that'll come in handy' and then after a few months > realise I've collected a pile of junk that I drop off at Molten Media.. I > thought I'd offer the drives up for free here first as I know there are > some tinkerers on the list... > > > > I'll go through em tonight and reply with a list of the sizes.. There > were some 40's and at least one 80 in there, and I think a 100 but I wasn't > paying that much attention to be honest... If it wasn't 400G+ it went on > the 'out' pile... > > > > Cheers, Chris H. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Peter Simmonds" <peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com> > <peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com> > > Hi Chris & Others, > > I think these may be useful when formatted with FAT32 and maybe on a > USB2 to PATA adapter. I have tried on many occasions to get various > livecd distributions to work on various hard drives. They always seem to > require FAT32, and frequently fail due to some other factor (I'm > guessing the USB-PATA bridge). Perhaps the lower CHS count on these > drives may improve compatibility? Have seen W98SE2 running on an 80Gb > drive myself. I also suspect there is some extension to FAT32 used by > default at least in windoze that would seem to create incompatibilities > with creating bootable live CD distros. > > Hopefully someone else on the mailing list will be able to give better > advice... > > In any case, I could do with a few of these myself, to upgrade some > legacy systems. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing > listlinux-us...@lists.canterbury.ac.nzhttp://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > -- Regards Bevan Linux Aficionado and Arch Linux fanboy In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
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