[TriLUG] Hardware recommendations (IDE CDROM, Zip disk, firewall)

al johson alfjon at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 6 02:32:40 EDT 2001


Well, you should have no trouble installing just about any IDE device now. I
have two IDE CD-ROM drives on my system, one a DVD and another a CD-RW, and
I have an INTERNAL ZIP drive which Mandrake 8.0 installed beautifully (7.2
did not for some reason). In other words, devices that are supported are
changing with just about every new distribution that comes out. In other
words, don't believe the lists of what is and is not supported without
checking it out yourself, this subject is definitely a moving target. For
example, I just purchased a new PCI Modem which supports LINUX. According to
the older guides this shouldn't be possible, but it comes with a LINUX
driver!! Bon Appetit.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Hardware recommendations (IDE CDROM, Zip disk, firewall)


> I'm still putting some finishing touches on one of my Linux boxes, and I
was
> wondering if anyone had any good/bad hardware advice.
>
> 1) IDE CDROM
> The box has a SCSI CDRW, but it doesn't have a CDROM.  I just need
something
> for software installs, music listening, an occasional CD copying (a
> Windows-only coworker finally took the plunge and installed Linux on an
old
> laptop).  The CDRW is very noisy, and I was hoping to get a quite IDE
CDROM
> with decent speed.
>
> 2) Zip disk
> My wife would like to have a Zip drive for immediate backups (I'll
probably
> script some rsyncing to the thing) and large file sharing.  My development
> machine has a SCSI card, but I see that Iomega also makes a USB zip drive.
> Has anyone tried either or both?  I liked the SCSI idea, but with an
external
> USB device, I may actually be able to use the thing on other computers (at
> work, my parents' machine, etc.)
>
> 3) firewall
> I signed up with RoadRunner.  It should be installed next week.  I have a
> fileserver/e-mail box (Pentium) and my main development box (Athalon).
Right
> now, I'm using IP Masquerading through the fileserver to get connectivity
to
> the rest of the house.  Even with a good ipchains ruleset (which I
probably
> don't have yet), I don't really want to make my fileserver a firewall for
a
> broadband connection.  I was thinking about getting a little firewall
device,
> but I don't know anything about them.  Are these things worth the price?
I'd
> still try to maintain a good firewall on the fileserver: I just don't want
a
> machine running NFS, apache, etc. to be my first line of defense. :)
>
> ---Tom
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