Hi to all! I believe there is a big confusion!
On the first post Andy states this: *I just got a new company laptop.* What the heck does he need to know about master, slave, falt cables and color of the power cables? He is talking about a laptop for Christ sake. He is asking you the time and you're telling him how the clocks work. He only wants to know if it is possible to load the Ham radio software that he needs to work digi modes on a External Hard Disk. I answer him YES, but there is no need to do it, why don't you try a Pen Drive, there are lots on the market now and the prices are low enough, I bought one with 1Gb for 19,99 euros a few months ago. How to use it? Instead of installing the software in the Computers own hard disk, install it on the flash drive (pen). This way you can use work your digimodes in about any computer. (it might not work with all programs, because some of them need to install some files in the Windows folder). Regards & Happy new 2007 Sal On 12/29/06, Dave Doc Corio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Excuse me for jumping in here, but I'd like to add one thing. Please be sure the power supply in the PC is capable of carrying the extra load. Many computers being made contain only a bare minimum power supply - usually on the order of 200 or 250 watts. While this is adequate for what is in the PC at the time it is shipped, adding peripherals can overload the power supply. Adding an extra hard drive, CD/DVD burner, video card and audio card can tax a minimal power supply and cause many problems. Usually, just adding one of these is not a major concern, but consider upgrading the power supply if you're adding several. A 450 watt power supply is generally fairly cheap - on the order of $35 to $60, and can save headaches down the road! 73 Dave KB3MOW > A computer, intelligent, friend of mine has been educating me of swapping > hard drives... For example, drive C..is usually marked at 'master' and the > others are marked as slaves.... > The marking is a jumper .. > On the bank of your hard drive are three recepticles... > The first one is a long plug, of which the data flows... > The second plug / receptical contain 4 rather heavy wires.. marked yellow, > black, black and red.. they contain the D.C. wiring.. I assume by the > colours.... > The third plug has no opposite polarity receptical but contains > jumper(s)... This is the jumper which determnes whether or not the hard > drive is a slave or master drive... > On one side of your hard drive, you should notice some printing which > tells you how to make the drive a master or slave... > You follow the instructions to make that drive a master or slave.... > This will allow you to put another drive onto your existing computer.... > including removing them should you desire.... > I had three computers.. I took the oldest computer's hard drive out and > put them into my newer computer... making the older computer's drive C my > newer computer's drive D, or which ever letter was available.... > Now I do realise I have probably drifted somewhat off topic but I hope the > information was of some value... > > Larry ve3fxq >
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