Hi just bought a Eeepc 900 from Morrisons for £199, I like it but am amazed to find no firewall installed,and as yet cannot find a way to install one. Still using the original linux OS. has any of you Eeepc owners managed to get a firewall installed? second question, Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive, Thanks Barry
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Barry Chater wrote:
Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive,
Yes. Depending on the type of drive you may need a special (adapter) cable.
I.e. if the laptop drive is a 2.5" IDE drive you'll need a special cable to connect it to the (legacy) IDE/PATA interface on your desktop machine.
I'm not sure if modern laptops have moved to SATA, probably they have, in that case I would assume that a laptop SATA drive will just connect to a Desktop SATA interface with no problem.
On 14 Oct 17:09, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Barry Chater wrote:
Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive,
Yes. Depending on the type of drive you may need a special (adapter) cable.
I.e. if the laptop drive is a 2.5" IDE drive you'll need a special cable to connect it to the (legacy) IDE/PATA interface on your desktop machine.
I'm not sure if modern laptops have moved to SATA, probably they have, in that case I would assume that a laptop SATA drive will just connect to a Desktop SATA interface with no problem.
Missed that bit that said IDE? ;)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:12:48PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On 14 Oct 17:09, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Barry Chater wrote:
Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive,
Yes. Depending on the type of drive you may need a special (adapter) cable.
I.e. if the laptop drive is a 2.5" IDE drive you'll need a special cable to connect it to the (legacy) IDE/PATA interface on your desktop machine.
I'm not sure if modern laptops have moved to SATA, probably they have, in that case I would assume that a laptop SATA drive will just connect to a Desktop SATA interface with no problem.
Missed that bit that said IDE? ;)
Er, strictly, both PATA *and* SATA are IDE drives aren't they?
However, as you say, "an ide hard drive from a laptop" most probably is PATA. :-)
I think I have 2.5" adapter cable if Barry wants it. Yes, I've just checked and I still have it. I can post it if you like Barry, no use to me any more.
On 14 Oct 16:55, Barry Chater wrote:
Hi just bought a Eeepc 900 from Morrisons for £199, I like it but am amazed to find no firewall installed,and as yet cannot find a way to install one. Still using the original linux OS. has any of you Eeepc owners managed to get a firewall installed?
A quick google suggests that the kernel on the xandros install of an EeePC doesn't contain iptables support - so installing a firewall is also going involve getting a real kernel etc...
second question, Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive,
Assuming a 2.5" laptop HDD, then yes, with an adaptor. http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=402W&CategorySelectedId=1...
You can get the cable on it's own from places like maplin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=28724
Hope that helps,
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