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I'm still not convinced these machines are any more than a PC with an OBDC interface/connectors and some software - in other words, its not beyond the wit of man to put one together for a lot lot lot less than the £1700 wanted by this guySteve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
21st Apr 2006 5:55 pm
Martin Site Admin and Owner
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The Rover testbook is no good for anything after the Discovery 2, and even then it's very old hardware (386 Hewlett Packard based I think). Good for Td5 Defenders, but not worth £1700.
The T4 WDS is interesting, but you would need the T4 hardware and cables... hmmm..
21st Apr 2006 7:15 pm
lee01277
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Shed
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testbook went for £1999 to "landyman" ??? hope he sussed the D3 compatability issue .................Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
21st Apr 2006 9:37 pm
bkehoe
Member Since: 24 Feb 2006
Location: Wexford
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Rovacom are doing some work on creating Discovery3/RRS modules now, but they're only in the very early stages, so it'll be a while before we see any modules.
As has already been said, Testbook cant be used with WDS. The newer T4 is needed. The T4s I've seen have all been relatively modern Dell Latitude laptops.IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
SA - 07 VW Golf TDI - White - Sold!
Think I'd question the seller's right to sell the disk, as it appears to be a copy -
Ebay guy wrote:
THIS IS AN IDENTICAL BACKUP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL DISC AND SHOULD ONLY BE BOUGHT IF YOU OWN THE ORIGINAL DISC OR HAVE THE ORIGINAL SOFTWARE LOADED AND NEED TO REPAIR AN INSTALLATION OF IT.
Surely if you have a kosher disk that's got damaged, you'd be able to ask LR for a replacement copy at the cost of media and admin, just like if you'd damaged a music CD, DVD or even software CD?Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
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bkehoe wrote:
The T4s I've seen have all been relatively modern Dell Latitude laptops.
Ooo good - just what I have! Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
22nd Apr 2006 8:56 pm
neo
Member Since: 16 Nov 2005
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Indeed, D600/610 by any chance?
ISTR that it boots some sort of linux to load the T4 testbook stuff, but it has been a while since I had a chance to play with testbook, always found rovacom to be better.
I was also under the impression that blackbox solutions were making good progress with the DIII/RRS stuff?
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