Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> What do these do if no drives are connected at all?

 RT> Does sweet blow bugger all. :-((

You swapped ram out,  did you try other video hardware?  Other power supply?

 RT>> Was thinking of putting it next to my pre-amp, using it to 
 RT>> record LP's and then save them over the network to another HDD 
 RT>> that has space to store the files, before writing them to CD-ROM, 
 RT>> seems it is going to be a while before I grant myself that 
 RT>> luxury. :-) until then I will have to keep on lugging my puter to 
 RT>> the Hi-Fi, record the LP's, then lug the 'puter back to it's 
 RT>> normal position, and then do the required processing before 
 RT>> putting them on to CD.

 RJT> Heh.  I have not yet even begun to deal with the logistics of how 
 RJT> I'm going to handle that stuff here.  There's no room in here at 
 RJT> all!  I guess some rearranging is in order,  for sure.  The stereo 
 RJT> is in the other room,  and hasn't been hooked up for some years 
 RJT> now -- I unpacked it when we moved in here but never bothered 
 RJT> going beyond that point,  and the speakers are in a corner in 
 RJT> here.  This is obviously going to have to change if I plan to get 
 RJT> some of the stuff I have on vinyl in cd format.  I don't suppose 
 RJT> that the 25 foot extension cords I have will quite reach...    :-)

 RT> Yeah well, I am trying to get me a solution going here that I can 
 RT> use, but will probably need a 36 foot network cable to make the 
 RT> extension, and getting a hub/switch which can handle 8 ports, 
 RT> might also make life easier. 

I got one 50-ft network cable,  and ended up acquiring (with a bunch of
other junk) a 25-ft cable later on.  So far I haven't had to use either of
them.  Got a 50-ft parallel printer cable,  too,  come to think of it.  Or
maybe that's a 25-ft.  Way longer than the usual ones,  anyhow.

Also got a 16-port hub,  and only ports 1-5 are in use so far,  though I
have plans for several more machines.  Too bad it's only 10MB,  but the
price was right (free).

 RT> I also have a similar problem space wise here, I might get an 
 RT> intergrated amplifier in here, but where I would put the speakers, 
 RT> never mind the turntable. :-((

I used to hang 'em on the wall.  Radio shack makes a nice set of brackets
for this purpose.  These are not what you could call small speakers, 
either -- each cabinet is a couple of feet tall,  at least.

 RJT> Then there's the matter of a preamp for my turntable,  which is not a
 RJT> match for the phono input of the receiver.  I thrashed this out quite
 RJT> extensively in the electronics echo a while back,  arrived at some
 RJT> sort of a solution,  and lost the archived messages when I lost that
 RJT> drive last summer.  :-(  I'll figure something out,  I suppose.

 RT> I remember,

You don't happen to remember what I figured out,  do you?  :-)

Right now I have the dual cassette deck plugged into the sound card's line
in jack.  I'm thinking that perhaps I can try feeding the turntable into
the tape deck's inputs,  see how it likes that...

Once I have some place in here to PUT the darn thing,  that is!

 RT> Right now I'm in the middle of browsing a whole mess of README and
 RT> HOWTO files plus there are assorted doc files that came with the
 RT> burner,  pdfs and all sorts of other stuff.  Perhaps tomorrow if I get
 RT> the energy I'll be able to get some hardware swapped around and at
 RT> least make a start on geting the software side of things going...

Got the hardware part of it done,  anyhow.

 RT> This should be interesting.

 RT> definitely. :-))

Yep.  We'll see how it goes,  from here.  Think gramofile will deal with a
cassette tape?  :-)

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