Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hello Roy.

 MK> 03 Sep 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 RT> I dunno.  I'm not real happy with the situation as it sits right now.
 RT> Probably gonna move the setup that's currently on hda1 to that 4G
 RT> drive I have sitting here,  and make _it_ be hda.  Maybe I'll move the
 RT> 1G drive that's in there now hdd,  or something.  Assuming I can find
 RT> that HOWTO you mentioned a while back about how to do this.  :-)

 MK> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Hard-Disk-Upgrade
 MK> It is your friend.

Got it...  I knew it was in there someplace.

 RT> I would sure like to have a "standard" power supply that
would accept
 RT> 12 volts in as well as line power,  and both charge a set of batteries
 RT> and run off them when line power went away.  Maybe even not charge
 RT> them,  I could deal with that externally,  if I had to.

 MK> I am thinking along that line but still am holding my ground as to 
 MK> minimal power consumption no matter if AC or DC.  Also the gel 
 MK> batteries as backup since they will go the distance.

Bigger gels tend to be expensive,  though,  the bigger they are,  the more
expensive by comparison with a "wet" battery.  I happen to have a
number of 33AH units on hand here.

 MK> If I were considering handhelds then I'd obviously have to alter 
 MK> that way of thinking.  However, if I am thinking of an onboard 
 MK> computer system in a vehicle, such as boats, planes, cars, trucks, 
 MK> etc. then the gel batteries make perfect sense, especially for 
 MK> boats as they also use gel batteries as a rule.

Much of what I used to sell as "trolling motor" batteries were
wet.  Designed for deeper discharge than the standard automotive stuff, 
they still came in the same sizes,  mostly group 24 or 27.

 MK> However so does a powered wheelchair which is what started this 
 MK> way of thinking in the first place.

Yeah,  those use gels,  mostly.  I sold a lot of the 33AH units for those uses.

 RT> Backup?  :-)

 MK> Heh, heh.

 RT> I'll be doing this from one drive to another before I try and do it
 RT> "in place" on any given drive...

 MK> Sounds good.

We'll see how it goes.

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