[Fwd: Re: [plug] Re: [plug-announce] ** September Workshop Notice **]

[Jonathan Young]

Hi Caleb

Sorry I haven't responded to this email sooner... Please let me explain why.

On the day you sent your email, I was as yet unborn.  A few hours later 
(approx 3pm GMT, April 1st 1980) and I took my first breathes, but 
unfortunately did not yet have Internet access (or the ability to 
type).  I spent the next few years learning to walk, talk and feed 
myself before moving to Australia at the age of 11.  In England where I 
was born, I only had access to the schools crappy BBC Acorn computers, 
but once in Australia, I met my cousin who was really into computing.  I 
followed his lead and got my first home PC.  A few years later I had an 
Internet connection, my first email address (actually a Hotmail account) 
and later still began PC-PHIX.  Prior to this I had basically had no 
exposure to Linux or Imation products anyway, so I still couldn't have 
helped.  A few years later I registered my own domain name and it was 
not until 2005 that I actually then subscribed this email address.

For some reason, I did not actually get your email until today, but now 
that I finally have, may I post a reply (of sorts) and offer the 
following links as a place to start (assuming you haven't fixed the 
problem in the past 25 years):

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive228-2005-1-884937.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/usb/msg02890.html
http://hulllug.principalhosting.net/archive/index.php/t-70055.html

The content of these pages is similar as it seems to have been posted 
written by the same person who has found there to be a lack of software 
support and written his own driver.  If he has fixed the problem he is 
trying to solve in these posts, he may be willing to share the answers.  
Also there is more discussion of the problem he encountered on the third 
of the links above, so you may wish to skip straight to that one.

Almost every site that I've checked so far seems to suggest that there 
is no actual Linux support, so the DIY job seems to be the only answer.  
Alternatively, you could contact Imation directly and see if they have 
any suggestions or success stories:  
http://www.imation.com.au/support/index.html  It seems the official 
answer so far is that although you may be able to get a USB connection 
to the device, the database and other software do not exist until 
someone writes them.  If I come across any other useful information I 
will let you know.

PS - Please excuse my lame humour with this reply.  I could have 
resisted if it weren't for that fact that your email came time and 
date-stamped with my exact birthday...

In all seriousness, I am actually a fan of these devices from a little 
while ago.  They are a great idea in theory, but I cannot see a way to 
get them going under Linux without the OpdiTracker software being 
available for that OS.  If you /do/ get it working, I would love to hear 
about it...

- Jonathan.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [plug] Re: [plug-announce] ** September Workshop Notice **
Date: 	Mon, 31 Mar 1980 21:01:56 -0500
From: 	Caleb Duggan <caleb.duggan at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	plug at plug.org.au
To: 	plug at plug.org.au
References: 	<20050922093805.GB18607 at zeno.patrick.wattle.id.au> 
<d12e5c905092205337056aa at mail.gmail.com>



I'm intending on bringing my imation disc stakka along......was hopeing i  
could get some help getting it to work in linux....there's a driver for it  
but, so far as i know, no database or interface for it

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:33:00 -0400, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/05, Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> When: 7:30pm, Monday 26th September 2005
>>
>> Venue: University Computer Club (UCC),
>>        Upper level of Cameron Hall, above the Tavern.
>>        University of WA.
>>
>
> Could be a busy one.. seeing as it's a public holiday
>
>
> --
> Ubuntu Breezy 5.10
> CNet News.com: So that would be the philosophical difference between
> Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
> Bill Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do
> know their slogan and we disagree with that.
> www.modmeup.net
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