Thursday, 9 May 2002
Turned out my external hard drive didn't die, my G4 stopped recognizing FireWire devices after I installed the tape drive. Probably plugged something in incorrectly. So scratch the below idea.
8:53 PMWednesday, 8 May 2002
Does anyone have experience installing ATAPI drives in 3.5" half-height
FireWire enclosures? A
generous acquaintance donated (er, "long-term loan"ed) me a 4 GB
Travan ATAPI tape drive to replace my dead Sony SDT-5200 pseudo-DDS-2
drive. But it doesn't fit very well in my G4: I had to install it upside
down and its use precludes my simultaneously connecting an IDE
cable to the factory installed CD-RW drive. I have a choice of:
- hacking up the inside of the case so the drive will fit right-side up (the bay is designed to accommodate a Zip drive, which has its IDE and power connectors on the opposide side)
- trying to somehow fit a FireWire/ATAPI bridge board into one of the external SCSI enclosures I have (the space above the tape drive you see in the picture at right is empty)
- installing the tape drive in an external FireWire case, which is still a lot cheaper than buying a new internal tape drive.
Suggestions appreciated on how to achieve this goal; I just had a hard drive failure and the thought of not being backed up scares me. I wish I could afford a real tape drive right now.
You can always count on finals week as a fertile ground for uiuc.test posting. This exchange cracked me up:
Erik Newman wrote: > > john marriott inflicted upon usenet the following: > > Just let me know when, I have a super soaker 2500 that hasn't gotten > > much use lately. I'll fill it with anti-herpes spray. Failing that, > > some sort of acid. > > Trust me on this one. Spraying sorority girls with a Super Soaker is > good for a $105 disorderly conduct fine in the city of Champaign. and you forwarded poor mary to abuse!?!
A number of my friends who host with csoft.net have been complaining about the service recently. It's definitely, er, cheap. This morning I read they cut off Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD.
I use pair.com as my Web host and could not be happier. The cost is quite a bit higher than that of csoft.net, though, and I've heard sporadic complaints about their shared MySQL servers (which I do not use).
The upshot of all this is that for the best reliability, I still need to move this weblog onto my own site. Some day when I have more than 15 minutes to spare, perhaps. In the meantime, I've still got 94% of my 40 MB free.
Now I've made the changes below, form submission (clicking the 'Delete' button) also results in a new window opening. Need to fix somehow, hopefully in an elegant fashion. I wonder if CSS will work?
