www.knoppix.net.

i.e assuming you have a CD-ROM n the compaq.

You will then have access to all your favorite Unix utilities for probing
hardware.

Yas


Yasvir A. Tesiram
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Dept. Free Radical Biology and Ageing
825 NE 13th St, OKC, OK, 73112, USA

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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Danny G Smith wrote:

> I was given an old compaq over the holiday that I think has a bad ide
> controller on the motherboard.  It is not worth a lot, but I could turn
> it into a samba server at my house.  Does anybody know of any good
> freeware that could help diagnose the hardware?
>
> --
> thanks,
> Danny G Smith
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