Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread ordung
On 12/30/08, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Roche wrote: >> The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE" cable & >> connector pretty cheap /// Not an enclosure but I've heard good things about this gizmo. Anyone have any experience? http://www.newertech.com/

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE" cable & > connector pretty cheap /// I got one of those, it's pretty neat. 40-pin and 44-pin (laptop) parallel plugs molded right into the ends of it, plus a SATA socket. So for laptop

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Ted Roche
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB > enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery > I'm trying to take care of? > -Neil The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE" cable & connector pretty

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 15:45, Mark Komarinski wrote: > I just found this over at slickdeals: > > http://www.eforcity.com/pothsata2501.html?efwebwkspban081230=pothsata2501 > > -Mark That is a good deal, but I'm not looking for a SATA one. That said, I've gotten good response so far and shoul

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Mark Komarinski
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB > enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery > I'm trying to take care of? I just found this over at slickdeals: http://www.eforcity.com/pothsata2501.html?efwebwks

Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/30/2008 12:00 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery I'm trying to take care of? I bought 1 for $5 at MicroCenter for a 2.5in drive and $7 for a 3i

USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Does anyone local to Billerica or the Tyngsboro/Nashua area have a USB enclosure for an IDE laptop drive that I can borrow for some disk recovery I'm trying to take care of? -Neil ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mai

Re: Review of "Essential Linux Device Drivers" ISBN-13: 978-0-13-239655-4, , Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, published Prentice Hall

2008-12-30 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:23 -0500, Alex Hewitt wrote: > Overall I'd give this book a high rating and it's good enough that I > will add a copy to my personal library. This book is in the GNHLUG library. (See links below.) Alex, May I post your review to the library web site? -- Lloyd Kvam Ve

InformIT looking for programming-reviewers

2008-12-30 Thread Ted Roche
InformIT, the online branch of Pearson Publishing (Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice-Hall Professional, Que Publishing, Sams Publishing) is always looking for reviewers to post reviews online about their books. Take a look at their application at: http://www.informit.c

Review of "Essential Linux Device Drivers" ISBN-13: 978-0-13-239655-4, ,Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, published Prentice Hall

2008-12-30 Thread Alex Hewitt
This book is intended to teach an intermediate level programmer who is already proficient in the "C" language to write device drivers for the Linux operating system. The book covers Linux kernel 2.6-23/24 versions which just happens to be the version I was using with my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop at the