Donations for the Ranch

[Lincoln Peters]

>From: E Frank Ball <frankb at efball.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: Donations for the Ranch
>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:23:33 -0800
>
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>HSC used to (and still might) sell IDE controllers for $3 to $5 each
>depending on what they had in stock.  They worked great with linux, I
>put them in several boxes as a secondary controller.  If they are no
>longer available I might be able to spare one, I'll have to look around.

Are they PCI or ISA?  I bought a so-called ISA IDE controller there a while 
ago, and it turned out to be a soundcard with a CD-ROM connector.  I should 
have known; it had RCA audio ports on the back.

>
>I have a 540MB IDE drive I've never gotten around to throwing away if
>you want it.  If you are interested in SCSI drives (SCSI2 50pin) I
>might be able to spare some 1 or 2 GB drives.

That 540MB drive sounds good.  It might be enough for a web server or an IRC 
server.  I've also got three 2GB IDE drives from those almost-discarded 
computers and from my grandmother's old computer, and I need to check them 
out to see if they're really any good.

I can't remember if the netbooting server (named "melampus") has a 50-pin 
SCSI or something else, but I'll try to find out.

>

>
>Need any 3.5" floppies?  I can spare a couple.

Oh, they both have 3.5" floppy drives.  I thought that a 3.5" floppy drive 
would be considered a given, but ever since the birth of the iMac...

Seriously, I've probably got plenty of 3.5" floppy drives in my garage 
(a.k.a. "the boneyard").


I'll try to answer some of these questions when I get home and can really 
look at this hardware.

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