Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:26:33PM +1100, Russell wrote: > What's better about scsi drives? I saw an old scsi controller card > at a PC meet today. SCSI is much more efficient than IDE as it does not force the processor to hang around waiting for commands to complete. So you don't get a massive an

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 16 February 2003 5:26 am, Russell wrote: >What's better about scsi drives? I saw an old scsi controller card >at a PC meet today. I have a 4gig Seagate SCSI that has been running reliably since about 1996 or so. It's slow - about 10/Mb/s - but I use it to archive important stuff. Jeff

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Russell
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:18:10PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: GSO writes: Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). snip If you have to get a SCSI card though... well get one, it'll open the wonderful world of

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:18:10PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > GSO writes: > > > Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a > > parallel port scanner (UK). > > Its just a matter of verifying that a certain scanner is known to work > on Lin

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Elizabeth Barham
GSO writes: > Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a > parallel port scanner (UK). Its just a matter of verifying that a certain scanner is known to work on Linux and then finding it. For the latter I suggest eBay. The former is a bit trickier and you might w

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Donald Spoon
GSO wrote: Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). GSO I don't think anyone makes a Linux-only parallel port scanner. You will probably have to get one of the standard scanners made for other OSes and make it work under Linux.

where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread GSO
Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). GSO __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -