Lombard and booting from external SCSI

[Derick Centeno]

A bit more information to help you towards a decision:
The internal drive in a Lombard is an IDE drive.  That means it is
possible to upgrade it to ANY other IDE drive available as long as it is
physically capable of fitting into your laptop.  Some people actually
have thought that as you increase hard-drive storage capacity the weight
increases as well...that is not true.  Backup your data and consider
getting a larger IDE drive...they are really cheap.

Also according to specs you have a Type I/II PC card expansion slot; you
can do the following:

Talk to the OWC people I referred you to earlier.
You wish to do the following:
1.  Remember the internal drive you have and use their kits to turn your
internal IDE drive into an external firewire drive.  Price that
2.  You want to find a PCMIA card which you can put into your TypeI/II
PC card slot such that it has firewire ports!  Price that.
3.  And you still have the option of chaining together USB drives and
devices if you want them using USB routers connected to each port.  

Of course if you follow my suggestions and use YDL you'll be able to run
at least two or three small cities.  How's that for an upgrade?

You have lots of options...
Best wishes...

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 11:36, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Fully supported means that once the drive is formatted properly and
> working YDL will have no trouble seeing it.
> 
> Booting YDL from an external drive is a procedure discussed at the YDL
> FAQ page.  The link to get there is provided here:
> 
> http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start
> 
> There is NO problem with YDL recognizing firewire/USB or other drives if
> they are properly formatted and configured.  YDL 3.0 has NO trouble
> seeing my firewire, Mac and Linux drives all at once.  I happen to keep
> the Mac and Linux on their own drives.  Not only can each drive be seen,
> each drive can be accessed and I can copy, transfer and erase files and
> reformat drives should I choose all within YDL.  And that is without
> using Mac-On-Linux.
> 
> Booting from any external drive IS a problem that requires following the
> information posted on the YDL FAQ page; once those instructions are
> followed there is NO problem.
> 
> Suggestion: 
> 1.  Consider looking at Other World Computing (www.macsales.com) or my
> other favorite Compuvest (www.compuvest.com).  You'll be shocked at what
> prices you can find...if you know how to read hardware specs...
> OWC is far more friendly...the other place is a pc shop all the way, but
> man does Compuvest have outrageous prices on hardware especially
> harddrives.
> 
> 2.  Why limit yourself to an expensive scsi drive?  Why bother with scsi
> at all?  According to published specs regarding the Lombard you should
> have available 2 USB ports!  Consider getting a USB drive.  Again Other
> World Computing would be more helpful regarding specific
> recommendations.
> 
> As long as the drive is on and connected when Linux boots up...there
> should be no difficulty.  Kudzu will tell you it notices a new device
> and whether you will allow it to add drivers to control it...say yes and
> you're on your way.
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:17, B McKee wrote:
> > I see from the YDL website the SCSI on my Lombard is listed as 'fully 
> > supported'
> > Does that mean I can install YDL (or something else) on an external 
> > SCSI drive and
> > be able to boot from that?   I know booting from firewire and/or? USB 
> > is a problem...
> > I'm running out of drive space and don't have the budget for another 
> > drive at present.
> > I suppose the other question is will the external SCSI drive have a 
> > consistant identifier
> > and what will it look like?
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
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