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Re: filmscanners: Best filmscanner, period!!! (strange title!)
Under Windows 2000 Pro onwards, SCSI drives are PnP.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Boag" <ianboag@partslink.co.nz>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Best filmscanner, period!!! (strange title!)
> Wotta crusty old bastard. Have to say though that I relate to the stuff
> about mission (ie livelihood) critical stuff. You have to have been there.
> I have a machine like that too. Experience has just about taught me that
no
> upgrade is trivial and I'll spend many unbudgeted hours sorting out
> unexpected fallout ....
>
> FWIW Here's how I would approach this problem. I'd set things up so all my
> HDDs were dismountable in caddys. I'd run GHOST or something similar to
> give me a duplicate set to work with. I'd then remove the originals and
put
> them someplace safe.
>
> If this was Win 9x I'd just plug the copied disk (s) into a new machine
and
> let P & P sort out any hardware probs for a while. Not an NT user, so I
> gather that can't be done. Anyway one can stuff about quite happily on the
> copy to scope the OS problems. Maybe I'd even do this on the original
> machine with the "real" HDDs parked safely out of it.
>
> My main machine contains all my dev source (I do it for a living). I have
> 2x30 GB drives in a mirrored RAID setup. One of them is in a caddy. Every
> week I take out the demountable drive and replace it. The RAID sorts all
> that out and re-syncs it. I have three drives that I rotate through the
> caddy slot. I've been bitten by tapes before - nothing beats a REAL HDD
> that you can plug into another machine and just have it go.
>
> Sorry for going a bit OT here .....
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