IDE problem: This was over the Christmas period in Asturias (a very nice place in the north of spain). I went to several local IT shops and some big shops and they did not have them in stock. Buy over the internet would have been OK but I had no way of knowing if they where going to arrive in time before I left. I knew there should be some sort of adaptor from SATA to IDE! my sources have betrayed me! The only shops that could get it for me said that it would be on the following day and that it would be 50-80euro. The cheapest. It was all for the best as the LCD screen started to fail. (hopefully it is not Xubuntu's fault). Depending on how I held the box the fan would fall off as well. A bit of a mess. In a side note got a friend aquainted with jolicloud (ubuntu based as far as I know) on his samsung netbook, a work collegue ditched xp for ubuntu and another one is trying it out. All seem OK with it cause I said that if they had any problems to get back to me, and last I checked they where happy. And I'm a mech eng but like a bit of IT. In those lines, I would like to work on a Mech CAD program (use and if I can develop): I was going for freeCAD but if any of you have suggestions that would be great. ***************************** Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... Message-ID: <AANLkTi=<a href="mailto:2GD6V82yFGrv7FyaDt2mMre3hZ%2BxZK8tgy55x@mail.gmail.com">2GD6V82yFGrv7FyaDt2mMre3hZ+xZK8tgy55x@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On 4 January 2011 15:08, Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella <<a href="mailto:andresmp@gmail.com">andresmp@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Also had a problem with father in law: HDD broke windows wasn't loggin it. > It was an IDE HDD so not something you can easyliy find it seems. He was > content with waiting a while longer and booting from an Xubuntu live CD. > It's only used for browsing. > You couldn't find an IDE drive? I think most of us have several in boxes around the place, and e-bay seems full of them. Sean -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella