[64studio-users] any hardware recommendations ?

[Susan Dridi]

Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Susan,
> 
>> 2 SATA DVD/CD drives
> 
> Which make/model are these? Did you have to use any special command line 
> options to get the 64 Studio install CD or DVD to boot?
> 
> Cheers!

Hi Daniel,

One is a Pioneer and one is something I got in a bin, just wrapped in 
anti-static plastic, no box. K3b tells me it's a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW 
SH-S183L and the other is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-212D, if that means 
anything. The TSST drive has writemaster capabilities, which I haven't 
looked into yet.

I should back up a little. When I first installed 64 Studio, I had a 
Memorex IDE DVD drive and I installed 1.0. But I really wanted to go 
SATA, and when 1.4 came out, I did a fresh install and had no trouble at 
all with anything.

The only command line option I ever use is vga=795 so that my 1024x1280 
LCD monitor won't keep popping up little warnings that the resolution is 
wrong, but I had to do that with Debian too. With 1.4, there was no 
trouble booting from the SATA DVD drive.

I was originally going to do a dual boot with Windows 2000, but the 
process to get Windows to recognize my SATA hard drives was too 
cumbersome, so I nixed it. I didn't even want Windows to see those 
drives, but it insisted. Yeah, I know Win2K isn't supported anymore, but 
a lot of people use it. 64 Studio had no trouble with my SATA hard 
drives during either install or since. So, chalk one up for your team!

I'm thinking of yanking the M-Audio card (since I just got a Firepod on 
sale:)) and also a hardware modem that I was going to use for faxing, 
but never have, and then doing a fresh install of 2.0, mainly for some 
house-cleaning.

My big question when installing any kind of Linux system is which 
modules I need? I seem to have a lot of them, and I don't know why or 
what my hardware really needs.

Thanks for the great distro and for being so good about helping us all 
out! This is probably the friendliest project I've ever come across:)

Take care,

-Susan