[Herts] On the scrounge for a hard drive

[David Honour]

I have some, a 40gig a 20gig, a 2gig and a 500meg. :-) Would that do?

If you want i can see what i can do about getting a newer machine for
you, for free, it wouldn't be much of an upgrade, but, still.

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:36:32 +0000
Malcolm Smith <lists at thesmith.org.uk> 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