[Herts] On the scrounge for a hard drive

[James Ronan]

Hi Malc,

Is it not work investing 30 quid?

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Rgds,
JamesR

Malcolm Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 07:32:37AM +0000, David Honour wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:35:00 +0000 (GMT)
>> Ash Thakrar <asht_007 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi Steve
>>>
>>> I have few spare drives and can pass it onto you.
>>> Please email.
>> I also have spare drives, i think a 20gig and a 40gig (had windoze me
>> on it which died, but i put Gentoo on it and it seemed ok).
> 
> Does anyone still have any spare hard disks?
> The boot drive in my main workstation (Pentium III 450MHz!) is a very
> old Fujitsu 4200rpm 4GB drive (!), half full of my minimal Debian OS.
> But it's been exhibiting an increasing number of errors recently, and
> is very slow, especially in swap-storms :-)
> 
> Yes I know I can buy a new comp for £200, but I don't have £200 spare.
> I was considering trying to boot from a cheap 4GB CF card with IDE-CF
> adaptor, but there are issues for small writes, which an OS does a lot.
> Buying a small proper SSD might be worth it eventually but for now, any
> old IDE drive of 4-40GB would be fine - quieter is more important than
> larger capacity which is unnecessary as I have /home on another 400GB
> disk. I don't think it's possible to just copy / onto my /home disk and
> then edit /etc/fstab, definitely not while the machine is running. My
> old BIOS won't boot CDROMs, so my only rescue disk is TomsRtBt floppy,
> which IIRC doesn't support large HDDs.
> 
> I don't know if I can make the meeting tonight but might try if someone
> can bring a spare disk (let me know). Otherwise PM me offlist and I can
> arrange to collect it.
> 
> 
> Many thanks