[ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help sending PCs to Haiti

[Jim Kinney]

If they survive a DBAN wipe, they should hold up OK. I have a box load
I will work on next week. I'm heading out of town in the morning and
won't be back until very late Sunday.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim, thanks a lot! However, I need drives that show signs of reliability since next time for me to return to Haiti will be a year from now. They have no one there tech oriented that I could direct over the phone to correct hardware issues.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/08/2012 10:23 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>>> *My* problem is that all client PCs are diskless. Does anyone have 06
>>> old HDs (PCs are 486s); size does not matter in this case  :-)  - 20 Gig?
>> I have an 80G that I think is OK.  I'm erasing it now.  I also have a 40
>> that doesn't seem to work.  It spins up and it shows up in dmesg but
>> fdisk -l /dev/sdf doesn't show anything.   I also have a couple of 2G
>> drive, unknow status.  And a 30 G I'll have to test. So maybe I have two
>> drives you can have.  I'm close, just up the road from Woolsey.
>>
>> Jim.
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