Hi Felix,

I agree about the use of hard drives.

I am currently testing a external hard drive box called a LanDrive.
I have fitted a 160gb Fat32 seagate IDE drive in it.  It is useable as either
a USB external hard drive or as a 10/100 Network storage drive.

It is the latter, as a Network device that I am playing with.  I can configure
it with ANY browser from ANY OS but have to use FTP program to add/remove
files and directories etc in os/2 or eCS.  I have given up with the os/2 FTP-PM 
templates as to buggy and so far, have settled on an old Emtec FTP 5.0 
program I still have.

So far it works very well.  The LanDrive also has network config, it's own
DHCP or manual IP, and can Format disk as Fat32 or ScanDisk from the 
browser config session, totally independent of the main computers' operating
system (of course).

There is no url to speak of, only a download page for firmware and win98 
drivers so far.  I sure hope they are going to continue development and 
create a proper home page at a later date.

More later perhaps,
Robert Traynor (BobT).
27 November 2005   22:52


On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:32:18 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>  
> >      Do you have any experience with re-writable DVD media?
> >      Does it work any better than the CD-RW media?
> 
> I'd like to suggest that if you think you want to use CDRW or DVDRW
> media that you consider another option. Hard drives are the best value
> in available RW space, and probably will be for some time to come. Get
> an external USB HD case for as little as $15, and one or more HDs for
> it, anywhere from tiny all the way up to 300GB or more. Now that the
> lastest IBM USB drivers have supposedly given up their insistence on
> using different LBA values than everything else, even multibooters can
> use them. For greater convenience for smaller but more frequent RW
> backups of smaller size substitute 512MB or 1024MB CompactFlash USB
> card(s) and a reader for them costing as little as $7.
> -- 
> "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength."
>                                                 Philippians 4:13 NIV
> 
>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
> 
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