Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 19 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> ...
>> I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive
>> onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to
>> ata/eide cable.
>>
>> It was suggested this cable:
>> ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic]
>>
>> But being in Florida...

These are really easy to find and are currently very common from many  
online vendors.

I wasn't recommending that supplier as I paid less for mine - you can  
find lots of places that sell these simply by Googling "USB EIDE SATA  
adaptor". Since I'm in the UK that was the first (sponsored) link I  
found - I only meant it to illustrate my suggestion of "get one of  
these, so you can back up".

When I search again I find the second result is a US vendor - they  
should save themselves money and use Google Ad's regional settings to  
exclude the likes of me: http://tekgems.com/Products/kl-usb-sata- 
ide-25-35.htm

> I would actually opt for an enclosure.  Qalculate is telling me that
> £24.95 is ~$51 USD.  You can get an enclosure at Best Buy , Frys (if
> they have that there) or CompUSA at around the same price ...

Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in  
the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your  
laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these  
"adaptor cables" are very useful indeed. The link above prices them  
at $17 - a price at which, IMO, you can't go wrong.

Stroller. --
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