noooooo

[CTho9305]

my 486 has my only spare CD-rom drive and I need the drive to set up soem other systems. the uptime is almost 32 days. not that this is necessarily impressive for linux... but its the longest I've ever had. ~32 days ago was a power outage.

oh well.... at least I get to try out some other OSes on the dual ppro 200 i'll be building. probably redhat 7.2 or maybe slack.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

You know that a regular cdrom drive can be purchased for about $5 online, right?

 

[nihil]

i think he needs the drive now. and not like 3 days from now. otherwise he wouldn't be willing to bring that box down.

 

[TheWart]

Heh, if you were a real man, you would test the hot-swapability of your ide cdrom

 

[nihil]

<< Heh, if you were a real man, you would test the hot-swapability of your ide cdrom >>



hah, you first.

 

[CTho9305]

hehe, i borrowed one from a kind friend . i was seriously considering a hotswap test . i know my computer can withstand the partial removal of my sound card for about .5 seconds.... wihtuot crashing.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

LOL! You guys are crazy. It's just a single number for how many days it's been up. Who cares if it's 3 or 300?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< LOL! You guys are crazy. It's just a single number for how many days it's been up. Who cares if it's 3 or 300? >>


go to bed! now!

 

[ProviaFan]

<< hehe, i borrowed one from a kind friend . i was seriously considering a hotswap test . i know my computer can withstand the partial removal of my sound card for about .5 seconds.... wihtuot crashing. >>


LOL, you must be a true geek. I've never tried hotswapping anything.

 

[Dreadogg]

<< << hehe, i borrowed one from a kind friend . i was seriously considering a hotswap test . i know my computer can withstand the partial removal of my sound card for about .5 seconds.... wihtuot crashing. >> >>

That is insain! I could see going after the cdrom though! But I did read on this very forum yesterday that someone blew up his 431 watt PSU tring to hotswap a fan!

 

[CTho9305]

trust me, this discovery was unintentional. it happened when my 120mm video card fan decided to try eating my sound card as I switched monitors

. I also have discovered that hotswapping a GFD usually results in a lockup.