[wplug] New box

[David G Matthews]

I would have to agree - as the owner of an IDE CD burner.  It's a pain.
It works, but setting up SCSI emulaion is annoying.  Hwoever, if you
already ordered the box, and it's IDE, it'll still work, you'll just have
some extra configuring to do.
-dgm
 

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Benjamin Rice wrote:

> I would say go with a SCSI burner.  That way it's quicker and you don't
> have to fool with the SCSI emulation stuff which isn't a big deal, but it
> saves you the time too. :)  Plus SCSI stuff rocks.  Everything else looks
> good to me!  Enjoy!
> 
> Ben Rice
> brice at intunecs.com
> http://www.intunecs.com/
> 
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, H. Lee Brinton wrote:
> > 
> > > Well I am finally going to replace my Pentium 150.  I ordered a new box and
> > > I was wondering if any one in wplug had any experience with any of the
> > > hardware.  The new machine is:
> > > 
> > > asus A7M266 motherboard
> > > AMD Athalon 1.33Ghz
> > > 512 Mb PC2100 DDR ram
> > 
> > 
> > > Plextor 16/10/40 cdrw
> > scsi or ide? either should be fine though scsi is better for cdrw's in my
> > opinion. plextor drives are good nevertheless.
> > 
> > > IBM udma100 30GB harddrive
> > i think udma100 works in the 2.4
> > 
> > > Intel 100Mb network card
> > eepro 100? i have a whole lab full of computers with these.
> > 
> > > asus 7700 video card (nvidia Geforce2 GTS 32mb)
> > might have to use binary stuff from nvidia but that should work fine.
> > 
> > > Iomega 250 IDE internal zip drive
> > shouldnt be a problem. 
> > 
> > > Viewsonic GS??? 19in Monitor
> > the lab is full of viewsonic ps790's. the gs should also be fine.
> > 
> > > Windows 2000 CD
> > put it in the microwave.
> > 
> > > 
> > > It should be here shortly.  I am bouncing off the walls with anticipation.  I
> > > am also a little scared that Linux will not work with hardware this new.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > just a few thoughts.
> > ~~
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> >                             -[From an IBM ad]
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