[ccp4bb]: Firewire - Linux - upgrade of a Mandrake 7.2 box

["Fred. Vellieux" <vellieux@ibs.fr>]

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Hi Folks,

A question pertaining, NOT to CCP4 per se, but to computing:

we currently have our Linux box operating Mandrake Linux 7.2.

At the time, Firewire (IEEE 1394?) was not supported.

The latest Mandrake distribution indicates automagic recognition...

But we do not wish to install ML8 on this machine.

So if any of the gurus out there know:

Is there any way to upgrade our box so that we could use
a PCI-Firewire card (so as to be able to use a firewire disk
after synchrotron trips)?

Thanks a lot folks (in advance).

Fred.

PS Hope this can be of interest to other CCP4 users!

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