OT - need small hard drives for seti

[cakin]

I have a FS/T thread here.

I am looking for a bunch of old IDE 200MB+ hard drives, I run seti using a small linux distro. I thought I had more left over here at the house, but I am out.

 

[GeoffS]

I've got a bunch of 1g drives... LMK if you are interested

 

[CADsortaGUY]

6- 1.2GB Quantum Bigfoot
1- 730MB Quantum Lightening
1- 1.5GB Maxtor 71626AP
1- 540MB Maxtor 7540AV
1- 638MB Conner
1- 1083MB WD Caviar21000


I replied in the other thread but i've now pulled them out of the storage drawer and looked at exactly what they are.

I know the bigfoots work and if they don't then blame NWM and the other 3 worked when I pulled them ages ago.

PM me if interested - I may be able to scrounge a few more up too.

CkG

Edit - added a gem

 

[cakin]

PM to GeoffS and CADkindaGUY...

I thought I had everything to build 4 more rigs this weekend, but I ran out of hard drives!

 

[XBoxLPU]

You know you can run seti off a floppy

Guide here

 

[networkman]

I know the bigfoots work and if they don't then blame NWM

They were all tested and working fine when they left my place.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: networkman
I know the bigfoots work and if they don't then blame NWM

They were all tested and working fine when they left my place.

I know
The ones I used were great. Unfortunately I don't have the need for a bunch of small disks any more since I seemed to have farmed all my machines out to freinds and relatives and they seemed to want bigger hdds than 1.2GB(weirdos )

CkG

 

[Ken g6]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
You know you can run seti off a floppy

Guide here

Or use this system (edit: or this system for several NICs), or you could try network booting (I don't know how to do that).

 

[cakin]

I've tried several of the single floppy linux's which downloaded the client after each boot. I finally found one I could configure on a floppy then move it to a small drive. Then I just copied over seti from another floppy to the HD and it runs self contained pulling WUs from my queue.

I have 11 hard drives on the way, I will format them all FAT using win98, then load the linux onto them and keep the spares on the shelf ready to go in case I have a failure. They are going to all sit on a rack in my garage, so it keeps the heat out of the house.

I put 2 motherboards in a plastic egg crate with the top MB sitting on 2 pieces of 3/4 pvc pipe. tie wrap the PSUs to the outside of the crate, tie wrap two 120mm fans on the back of the crate blowing across the memory at the cpu's. set the hard drives on the side. I even purchases some spst switches from radio shack and wired the on/off and reset switches to the front of the egg crate.

My wife will soon be able to look at my queue, if anything is red go outside and reset that machine.

Once again - THANKS for all the hard drives!

BTW...Lane42 look out - the Hatchery is under serious construction!

 

[lane42]

Something tells me ia'm finishing last in the race to 4000 :brokenheart:

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: cakin
I've tried several of the single floppy linux's which downloaded the client after each boot. I finally found one I could configure on a floppy then move it to a small drive. Then I just copied over seti from another floppy to the HD and it runs self contained pulling WUs from my queue.

I have 11 hard drives on the way, I will format them all FAT using win98, then load the linux onto them and keep the spares on the shelf ready to go in case I have a failure. They are going to all sit on a rack in my garage, so it keeps the heat out of the house.

I put 2 motherboards in a plastic egg crate with the top MB sitting on 2 pieces of 3/4 pvc pipe. tie wrap the PSUs to the outside of the crate, tie wrap two 120mm fans on the back of the crate blowing across the memory at the cpu's. set the hard drives on the side. I even purchases some spst switches from radio shack and wired the on/off and reset switches to the front of the egg crate.

My wife will soon be able to look at my queue, if anything is red go outside and reset that machine.

Once again - THANKS for all the hard drives!

BTW...Lane42 look out - the Hatchery is under serious construction!

:camera:'s? Sounds interesting!

 

[cakin]

Lane42 - I have 3 more boards ready to go just waiting on hard drives. And I go on the road again Monday for 9 days of meetings and conventions.
Wife was complaining so much about the heat, I am having to move all but 3 machines into the garage. I now have 5 8HKA+'s

LyNx01 - I had the option of buying a digital camera or an nforce2 - guess which won! I will have to borrow my neighbors and get 1 or 2 pics up.

 

[deerslayer]

LyNx01 - I had the option of buying a digital camera or an nforce2 - guess which won! I will have to borrow my neighbors and get 1 or 2 pics up.

I don't blame you one bit!

 

[Intelligence3]

I put 2 motherboards in a plastic egg crate with the top MB sitting on 2 pieces of 3/4 pvc pipe. tie wrap the PSUs to the outside of the crate, tie wrap two 120mm fans on the back of the crate blowing across the memory at the cpu's. set the hard drives on the side. I even purchases some spst switches from radio shack and wired the on/off and reset switches to the front of the egg crate.

:camera: please. That sounds nifty.