What I was talking about is a device which goes in to your system which hookes up to your primary master IDE cabling. Then, you have plastic cases, called trays, which you put your hard drives in to. What you do is shut down your system activate the release on the unit which allows you to pull the plastic tray from your system with a hard drive in it and instantly insert a new tray with another drive in it. To swop a hard drive with this method takes about 30 seconds to release drive 1 and insert drive 2. The catch 22 is always to make sure your system is fully shut down before changing drives, and to slide the tray in strait or you might break the port on the back which hooks on the port inside the unit. Anyway, I think the system is quite nice, but always remember to handle it gentally as one drop and goodbye hard drive or push it in too hard and too fast and goodbye drive tray. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hmm. Is this similar to a hot swapable disk cabinet (a mini version)? > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > > Glenn, the last Trios I installed in a system blew out three hard drives and > > a mother board. Those things can be quite dangerous, but I found a far > > better solution than the trios. > > I bought the removable drive trays in which you hook the tray up to your > > IDE, put each hard drive in a tray, and insert or eject the hard drive you > > want or don't want based on which drive and os you want. > > For example I have a Western Digital drive with XP on it, but if I want to > > switch to Mandrake 9.2 I can shutdown pull out the XP hard drive tray and > > insert the Mandrake drive, in the slot and back up and running in Linux in > > a minute or two. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:02 AM > > Subject: Re: Help! I've screwed up my computer! > > > > > > > Here's a solution to trying to multi-boot: > > > http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm > > > I have one of these cards. > > > It was only about 30 dollars after the rebate. > > > It comes with a switch on a cable which comes out of the back of the > > > computer. > > > You cannot accidentally switch drives after the computer has started. > > > You can have a different operating system on 3 different drives. > > > I really like it. > > > Glenn. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom at bredband.net> > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:55 AM > > > Subject: Help! I've screwed up my computer! > > > > > > > > > Hi to the list. > > > I've installed Debian Sarge on my main computer, an IBM Net vista with > > > 2.4 gig processor and two hard drives in it, one 120-gig and one 40-gig. > > > I have dedicated the 40-gig hard drive for Linux and have Windows XP Pro > > > on the bigger drive. I have installed Grub as my boot loader and am now > > > trying to start Windows but i can't. Debian starts with no problems but > > > Windows doesn't. During the installation i got no option for configuring > > > for dual boot, so i wonder if there's a possibility to do this now after > > > installation or if i have to reinstall Debian or remove it alltogether > > > and if so if it's possible to uninstall Grub to replace or reinstall it > > > or how should i go about? > > > Thanks for any help! > > > -- > > > /Krister > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAVLkkNohoaf1zXJMRAt0CAJ9URAfW8triG6/K1yA0DAXRGupmCgCfbEDf > 15jfq9suGNyekm6e1+1sXts= > =6zes > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
