was looking at a blu-ray writer for better storage. the
price of media is still ridiculous. but finding one for under $30 is no
longer infeasible (if still requiring a little luck). not a priority,
though...
there may be a new format out in the next two years. that should help bring the blu-ray prices way down.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
the flash made it give up faster, which is actually an improvement.
cleaning the drive turned the fan noise down but didn't fix the read
issues. it just spins. windows. dos. no os at all. same thing. so, i'm
concluding that the drive is broken.
which means i haven't ruled out the ide on the board.
today, i need to get an external sata/ide-->usb thing and some other things. i'll be taking a run for old parts (ram for my secondary board is like $2/stick, might as well fill it up. it's also time to upgrade to usb 2.0, lol, given that usb 3.0 cards have pushed the price down. it's useless from a store's perspective. like, $5. and if i can find one for cheap enough ($10) i might even upgrade the chip from a pIII 500, although the max the board can take is pIII 950.) tomorrow and will grab an old ide then.
i mean, that board has maximum specs that are dirt cheap to attain. might as well...
which means i haven't ruled out the ide on the board.
today, i need to get an external sata/ide-->usb thing and some other things. i'll be taking a run for old parts (ram for my secondary board is like $2/stick, might as well fill it up. it's also time to upgrade to usb 2.0, lol, given that usb 3.0 cards have pushed the price down. it's useless from a store's perspective. like, $5. and if i can find one for cheap enough ($10) i might even upgrade the chip from a pIII 500, although the max the board can take is pIII 950.) tomorrow and will grab an old ide then.
i mean, that board has maximum specs that are dirt cheap to attain. might as well...
alright, yamaha...
i know it's a little odd to go looking for a dos firmware installer for a cd-rom manufactured in 1999, but you really couldn't spare the 200 kb on your website? was it the bandwidth?
jerks.
there's legacy hardware sites, but they don't even support dos anymore, so i have to install windows to flash the drive. ugh...
i don't even think it's going to work, it's just a last chance before i trash it.
worse, people that flash things know it's not always so good to flash things from windows.
i could brick it trying to fix it. right now, i don't know if it's programming is corrupted, if it's physically broken or if it's just ridiculously dirty.
that little 200 kb (if that) file could prevent somebody from having to buy a new....
yeah. great system we've got going, here.
if you're curious, i'm trying to get the boot block on my motherboard to kick in. it's just simply not reading the floppy connector, but i think it's because the pin is damaged on it. the sata drives are spinning, but they're not reading. and i don't think i'm getting power to the usb ports. the ide connector seems to work, and the drive is spinning, but the drive isn't reading in my other pc at all, so i can't really conclude that that isn't working until i can verify that the drive is working. i have an ide dvd but i know it doesn't read cd-rs well. so i need the drive to work to rule out that the boot block isn't kicking in, before i go through the process of trying to serial in.
i know it's a little odd to go looking for a dos firmware installer for a cd-rom manufactured in 1999, but you really couldn't spare the 200 kb on your website? was it the bandwidth?
jerks.
there's legacy hardware sites, but they don't even support dos anymore, so i have to install windows to flash the drive. ugh...
i don't even think it's going to work, it's just a last chance before i trash it.
worse, people that flash things know it's not always so good to flash things from windows.
i could brick it trying to fix it. right now, i don't know if it's programming is corrupted, if it's physically broken or if it's just ridiculously dirty.
that little 200 kb (if that) file could prevent somebody from having to buy a new....
yeah. great system we've got going, here.
if you're curious, i'm trying to get the boot block on my motherboard to kick in. it's just simply not reading the floppy connector, but i think it's because the pin is damaged on it. the sata drives are spinning, but they're not reading. and i don't think i'm getting power to the usb ports. the ide connector seems to work, and the drive is spinning, but the drive isn't reading in my other pc at all, so i can't really conclude that that isn't working until i can verify that the drive is working. i have an ide dvd but i know it doesn't read cd-rs well. so i need the drive to work to rule out that the boot block isn't kicking in, before i go through the process of trying to serial in.
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