[LUGSB] a question about hard drive

[Jiansheng Huang]

Hi Greg, 

Thank you a lot for your valuable advices. 


--- greggles at optonline.net wrote:
> Buy an external USB drive shell, and the drive
> separatley. You will save $$$ this way. Do you know
> if your motherboard has USB2 support? Hope that it
> does, or buy a USB2 card for $15 to achieve higher
> transfer speeds. Or, you could just get by with the
> standard USB, USB1, which is painfully slow. Make
> sure that your hard drive shell is for 3.5 inch
> drives. 2.5 inchers are laptop hard drives, and
> they're outrageously expensive. As for the hard
> drive, get something of at least 80 gigs. Newegg.com
> has em for $80 with free shipping. You can get a
> better deal, but it's only a little better, and you
> have to juggle rebates. Make sure your hard drive is
> IDE or EIDE (same thing) and it'll probably say ATA
> 100/133. As long as it isn't serial-ata, or SATA,
> you'll be fine. Get that stuff, assemble it (5
> minutes or less), and plug it into your computer.
> Most modern operating systems will already have
> drivers, and your drive will show up in My Computer.
> If windows doesn't see the device wh
> en you plug it in, unplug it, install the included
> software, and you'll be good to go. Don't install
> the software that comes with the hard drive itself.
> And when Windows asks you to format the drive, make
> sure you format it as FAT32, not NTFS. Most linuxes
> don't fully support NTFS. 
> 
> Good luck, and we'll see you at the meeting.
> 
> -Greg Z
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jiansheng Huang <jihuang_ca at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:42 pm
> Subject: [LUGSB] a question about hard drive
> 
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I plan to install a linux system on my machine.
> Before
> > I install a linux system, I would like back up all
> my
> > files in another hard drive. 
> > 
> > I would like to assemble an external hard drive
> > myself. This means I will need to buy an internal
> hard
> > drive and a external drive chassis. But i don't
> know
> > what I should be aware with the specifications
> (e.g.
> > width, interface ...) of them so that they can
> > actually put together. Has anybody done this and
> would
> > be able to share your experience? Thanks in
> advance.  
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Hey,

Just wanted to let everyone know that the campus wireless network does work 
with Linux...I'm sending this e-mail sitting in the SAC lobby...anyway its 
pretty straightforward to get it working once you get the right software 
setup.  Anyone interested in the software neccessary or the particulars of 
the setup should let me know.

Danny

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