[VoIP] For those of you who have just installed Asterisk1.4.16.2

[windmill]

Ah yes Ebay! That's how I ended up with a pile of 1-2Gb IDE and SCSI 
hard drives several years ago, spares for my Pentium 1s  which I still 
have. I admit to being an old hoarder, I still have a complete set of 
TTL logic spares for my two TRS80 model 1s which haven't been fired up 
in more than 20 years, for that matter nor has the B&W korean monitor 
(Tandy's own were too expensive here at the time) or indeed my mid 1970s 
B&W portable mains/battery TV set which I used to use as a monitor. I 
must switch it on and test it before the end of the year when UK TV 
switches to digital!
 
Brian

John Novack wrote:
> Not so sure that MaxBlast will work with Linux.
> Russ and others can comment on that.
> Given that the cost of big drives is SO cheap right now, and MANY of 
> them can be jumpered for some magic number, it's hardly worth the effort.
> Also I have bought MANY 20 Gig drives off eBay for next to nothing. 
> Used, of course, but landed at 11 bucks each!
> Even if one isn't so hot, who really cares.
>
> John Novack
>
> Steph Kerman wrote:
>   
>> My Maxtor drives of a few years ago (120GB and 200 GB) came with CDROMs 
>> containing a program named MaxBlast.  I used it on older machines and it 
>> gave me full use of the drive.  The 200GB drive had to be partitioned 
>> into a 137GB partition and a 66 GB partition.
>>
>> Yesterday I used MaxBlast on a 100 GB Seagate drive.  I wondered whether 
>> it would accept the Seagate drive.  It announced that it recognized it 
>> was being installed on a non-Maxtor drive and said and asked me to 
>> accept that Maxtor would not be responsible if it did not work properly 
>> on this non-Maxtor drive (as though they accept responsibility if it 
>> does not work on a Maxtor drive!!).  Prior to running Maxblast, the 
>> Windows did not show the presence of the drive at all, though the BIOS 
>> setup screen listed it as being present.
>>
>> You can probably find a similar utility on any drive mfr's website.
>>
>> Steph
>>
>> Russ Price wrote:
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>>> windmill wrote:
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>>>> What has become a problem is finding hard drives for *boxes built on 
>>>> older PCs, I have some new 160Gb drives lying around but they will only 
>>>> run as 32Gb and I hate wasting all that capacity. 60Gb seems to be the 
>>>> maximum I can get to run in the P3s and the 80Gb drives I tried won't 
>>>> work unless I tell the BIOS they are 60Gb or less.
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>>> There are PCI IDE controller cards that have their own BIOS and won't 
>>> waste space on large drives - or you could get a SATA card and use a 
>>> SATA drive instead, as the SATA cards also have their own BIOS.
>>>
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