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« on: September 21, 2011, 12:04:43 PM » |
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I was up in the attic looking for a cover for my Kindle and happened to come across an old PC tower. Its an AMD system and has a DVD drive, 1.44 floppy drive, and Zip Drive.
I don't recall what OS is on the system, the amount of memory, or how fast/slow the processor is. it may be a dual boot Windows and Linux/Linspire/Freespire system. I guess I'll have to plug it in, fire it up, and see what's on there.
I'm wondering, though, does PCinuxOS support the zip drive? If it does, I just may reformat the drive, install PCLinuxOS and start moving files off my old zip disks onto an external hard drive. Or, it everythign works, just move al the files with the current OS, THEN install PCLinuxOS. It'd be a nice rainy day project.
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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2011, 01:04:03 PM » |
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zip drive? last time i heard about it, yes, kernel we use should support it if it is not a obscure type of drive
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Georgetoon
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 02:32:30 PM » |
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zip drive? last time i heard about it, yes, kernel we use should support it if it is not a obscure type of drive
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2011, 02:34:42 PM » |
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Yes it does support Zip disks ..... I have used a 100MB one in the last few months  .... and a floppy  |
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2011, 02:38:12 PM » |
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A FLOPPY?!?!?!?!
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2011, 02:42:30 PM » |
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Georgetoon
I played around with this some time back and got it to work at times with a lot trouble. If your old machine boots up to Windows, I would use that to get any files from the zip drive.
I have an old machine with Win98 on it connected to my home LAN for just the oddball things like this.
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I did get one of the OpenBox versions to boot up and recognize the zip drive, but have since discarded most of my "really old stuff" - ran out of room.
Good luck.
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2011, 03:35:24 PM » |
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Pclinuxos will support zip drives, but maybe the one you have may have that click of death
where it just sits there and goes click, click, click. I have maybe 40 100 Iomegas disk and
a usb reader/writer and the last time I checked they worked.
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2011, 04:24:42 PM » |
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Hehehe .... you should try one as a boot disk ...... a new experience in sloooooooow ..... |
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MLUs rule the roost!
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Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
4 GB RAM
MCP51 High Def Audio
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8701
Logitech BT Mini-Receiver
Afatech DVB-T 2 USB DTT
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