For several months now, a bunch of computer parts have been lying unused in the corner of my living room. One set of hdd’s I want to get music off of… but they are in raid configuration so can’t be installed on my current computer. I hope Linux will allow my old Promise TX100 raid card to work.
I had about a week’s delay in getting a copy of Ubuntu Server Edition because the burner on my main computer is burnt out, along with the burner on my computer at work. The fix was that I had to download it at work, save it to an 8gb memory stick, transfer it to Joe’s new laptop’s hdd, and burn it from there.
So I just got that fresh CD a couple days ago and found a ton of problems with the computer I’m setting up. Joe wanted some files off his old computer, and donated the parts to me after I helped him take out the hard drives. I combined his motherboard and power supply with my old Asus Vento 3600 case, the one that looks like it has a fighter jet intake. The system turns on and all the fans run, but there’s no video output on both DVI and VGA, not even POST. ARGH! I removed all the drives and tried two different video cards, so I think it must be the motherboard or ram.
Not wanting to have to deal with it anymore, I’m going to try plugging the raid card into my current machine and setting up dual booting to linux to try to access the files. Currently praying that it doesn’t mess up something and leave me without a computer for a week.