[HLUG] A couple of ink cartridges and a data transfer problem

[Dr Chris Owens]

Pete,

Good to hear from you and thanks. Indeed sorry to have missed many 
meetings but still very much divided between Worcs and London.

Will try Geoff's idea with Knoppix and yours with DSL and then perhaps a 
zombie box. BTW am only too familiar with zombie computer use but not so 
sure about zombie machines - what are they?

Chris

On 19/07/12 15:32, Pete Linnell wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Long time no see !
> Interesting data transfer challenge. I have still a working 1990's 
> Toshiba sattelite laptop with USB Mk1 ports and can run it from a 
> DSLinux CD which is my standard data recovery OS. Or we could try to 
> build a zombie box from my spares pile :)
> email me a phone number to pete at lifespacedesign.co.uk if you like to 
> call by and try this out!
>
> Mind the Gap
> Pete
>
> On 19/07/12 15:18, Dr Chris Owens wrote:
>> Hi everybody
>>
>>     Have just come across a couple of unopened Canon Inkjet 
>> cartridges 1xBCI-3eBK and 1xBCI-3eC which I will send with pleasure 
>> to anyone who can use them.
>>
>>     Second is more interesting but I would really appreciate some 
>> help. Am trying to reclaim residual data from old hard drives using a 
>> IOMAH USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter with Ubuntu 10.04. No problem with 
>> relatively recent drives but am stuck with a Fujitsu M2611T 45MB 3.5" 
>> IDE drive circa 1992 probably previously running Widows 3.1 
>> (presumably FAT16). Was OK in its box and starts up smoothly in the 
>> adapter but I just can't get Ubuntu (or Windows 7) to recognise it.
>>
>>     It doesn't show up with $lsubs (or anything else as far as I can 
>> see) and it feels like some kind of failure of data exchange between 
>> the old drive and the new USB requirements. Short of putting the 
>> drive back in its box and copying off data with floppies are there 
>> any other possibilities Trinity Kit maybe or are some drivers needed? 
>> - most reports seem to suggest drivers would not be needed.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Chris******** ****
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