On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:05 PM, tmk_for_byteworks wrote: > Adding to the fun, the hard drive in this student machine is evidently > preparing to die -- got a kernel panic, ran some disk drive > diagnostics using the oh-so-cool ultimate boot CD, and the diagnostic > said the disk is failing.
IIRC, there are about four different disk diagnostics on the CD. Which diagnostic did you use? How long did it take? > It booted up afterwards, but I wonder for how long. Oh, > interesting is that this hard drive is, you guessed it, a Quantum > Fireball. If it is bad, toss it. Not worth the effort. Came across a few bad ones (not just Fireballs) while cloning drives. I just marked them as bad and moved on. > Robert, have you had any further luck working on the modems you > took home? I've only been able to sort modems into ISA and PCI, about a half- dozen of each. Nothing beyond that. > Oh, one final thing -- I came across a most interesting little > application, called scanModem, that I found very helpful. That, and > this web link: <http://www.aboutdebian.com/modems.htm> which I wish I > had found *before* I spent a few hours mucking about with the other > things. I got scanModem from here: http://132.68.73.235/linmodems/packages/scanModem.gz Have you tried it? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bworks_shop/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
