Ninety years ago today, my Grandma, the second of 6 children from Romanian parents, took her first breath in the little city of Mc Keesport, Pennsylvania, USA. Six years later, all the family moved back to Romania, and then to France in 1924. Married with Maurice, from Burgundy, she gave birth to my mother, her only child, 1 month after turning 22. In 1977, Maurice died at the early age of 60. Since then, she retired and shares her time between having good time, travelling and visiting her family. Long live Rosalie.
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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