Two weeks ago, we've been to Boston, MA. From Montreal, it's a very nice 5 hours/500 km trip. We've first cross the Vermount and the Appalachian mountains -- breath-taking at spring, gorgeous during fall --, the New-Hampshire, made a stop in Rockport, another stop in Salem (visit of the Witch Museum), and the arrived in Boston. Very pretty city, based on the typical architecture from New-England. We visited the Boston City Library, the Harvard Campus, the USS Constitution, shopped at Quincy Market, took a very nice guided pedestrian tour in the old Boston, and ended our trip by a 2-hours cruise on the Charles River. A very enjoyable trip, exception made for the hotel --the Hilton at Woburn-- which was rather dissatisfying.
The IDE hard drive on my Fostex DMT8-vl multitrack recorder shows signs of its imminent death; when getting hot, I could not record anymore. Must be said this drive comes from an old Sun Station, and has been replaced because I/O failures were detected by Solaris. It worked at least 5 years in my recorder: not so bad. However, time is now to replace it. The DMT8-vl is not able to handle drives bigger than 8.4 GB. Well, it is able to (the current drive is 15 GB), but only 8.4 GB will be usable. My tought was to use a 8 GB CompactFlash; having no moving parts means no noise, which is quite temptating for a music recording device. I purchased a CompactFlash-IDE adapter on the internet (8$) and I had to build a male-male IDE cable adapter (4$). Unfortunately, this doesn't work. The drive is correctly discovered by the operating system, which proposes to format it ("format IDE?"). After answering "yes", the formating runs pretty fast (faster than on a real drive), ...
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