[GTALUG] a quick question about power supplies?

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually I have no idea, only that someone from this list provided a p3 
unit..assuming the person who did the work was forthright.
As for hard drive size, freedos,
www.freedos.org
Can manage hard drives in the tigibyte range.
My personal situation  has to do with the need for content on those 
drives.
I  often need to run several different editions of the same software in 
different partitions to avoid conflict.
Normally I  backup  content right away, but the individual  involved with 
this build felt the Panasonic designed USB driver for DOS  should not go 
on this computer..no explanation provided..no matter how often I sought to 
explain otherwise.
So, yes there are three hard drives in this machine, but I have managed 
larger drives in DOS without issue.
It is very possible the power supply is not powerful enough for  my 
workload.  windows would require even more power I would imagine.
Thanks very much for the terrific questions.



On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

> If I remember correctly, your "new" machine is very old.
>
> It is likely that current advice and rules of thumb don't apply.
>
> Perhaps your power supply is dying of old age.  Fans certainly wear out.
>
> Having too many things in your box might stress your power supply.
>
> Three disks seems like a lot for a DOS setup.  Is the problem that DOS can
> only handle small drives?
>
> The more things in your system, the more points of failure.
>
> I imagine that, sooner or later, you are going to have to move to a newer
> platform.  I know you already know how hard it is to stay with the
> technology you have.
>
> I don't have time to review what you've said about your system, but I seem
> to remember that you are very attached to your Kurzweil Reader and that
> Linux's screen readers are not good enough.  So I know that replacement
> isn't easy.
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