Hard Drives and CD Drives

OK Still no Red5 server running – i did not even try to install tomcat yet. I just need to figure out the correct java path, but for some reason I did not even get a chance to look at it today.
so anyway, today I worked on my desktop system(s) instead.
My CD writer and DVD Rom were both not showing up in Windows, and I was out of HD space.
I added a 320GB SATA disk that I pulled out of a broken “MyBook” drive, and found 180GB of free space on the “C” drive, formatted that as the “J” drive. Now I have 5 partitions on 3 drives with hundreds of GB of free space.
After messing around with the CD writer and DVD ROM, I concluded that I just needed to add one jumper in the right place and then both my CD writer and DVD Rom showed up / seem to work / haven’t disappeared yet.
woo hoo.
To celebrate, I installed Centos on 1 of the towers in my garage and now I’m running a unix desktop in the garage to type this through the pre-installed firefox. pretty easy and sweet. yum. yum update. woo hoo. 2 other towers wouldn’t even boot up. I think I’m going to scrap them for parts.
over and out.