[Herefordshire] VectorLinux Finally installed !!

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Thanks for this - as I said, I need to check out caddies for SATA drives anyway.  I don't think its worth playing with slower machines, I want to do the work on my AMD64 system, but keep the Windows and Linux drives separate - perhaps sometime to bring it to a LUG meeting.

I was doing some more playing and it is probable that Move did not actually pick up the scanner, just rekognised it as a USB device, and gave it a name accordingly.  I didn't scan anything in with it, not that I wanted to, but I think this is fairly probable.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Matt Rhys-Roberts
Sent: Fri 21/01/2005 09:25
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] VectorLinux Finally installed !!
 
Hi Andrew,

Small word of caution - we have found at work that sometimes caddies can 
impair the proper functioning of high-performance (high data rate) IDE 
drives/cables/interfaces, perhaps due to introducing factors that skew 
the parallel data's integrity somehow. I can't be too exact about this, 
but good luck.

Best Regards,
Matt Rhys-Roberts
Leominster



Andrew Hodgson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks to Box I have now been totally brought up-to-date with Linux
>desktops thanks to Mandrake Move.  I put it in when I got home, it
>detected every piece of hardware I have in this box from the video and
>sound boards, to the scanner, CDR and zip drive!!
>
>I think what I will do now is probably invest in a hdd caddie, although
>there are no IDE ports left on this mobo (the system in question uses
>SATA), so not sure whether I can get such a caddie yet, but will look at
>work tomorrow.  Still not sure whether I really want Mandrake, or
>something which supports the CLI a bit more (Move didn't really have
>many commands that I had previously used).
>
>Although I got an IP address (or seemed to get my default of
>192.168.1.13 (the DHCP rekognised the NIC MAC address), I couldn't do
>any surfing, probably due to needing to specify our proxy settings,
>which I didn't know where to put them.  Similarly, I really need to get
>the resolution down, as currently it ran in quite a high res screen.
>
>Andrew.
>
>  
>

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