At a computer fair Sunday, I came across an enclosure for a HD with a USB 2.0 and 2 firewire interfaces, bought it and thought I'd give it a try on the x86_64 9.2 laptop with a spare 120G I only discovered I had when swapping out the mobo on the Mandrake box and after I went out and bought a 160G. * added "alias block-major-8 usb-storage" to /etc/modprobe.conf. * fdisk /dev/uba and setup 2 partitions Device Boot Start End blocks ID System /dev/uba1 * 1 14752 118495408+ 83 Linux /dev/uba2 14753 14945 1550272+ 82 Linux swap/Solaris mkreiserfs /dev/uba1 mount /dev/uba1 /UBA1 swapon /dev/uba2 # hdparm -Tt /dev/uba1 /dev/uba1: Timing cached reads: 2000 MB in 2.00 seconds = 998.65 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 3.37 seconds = 608.53 kB/sec The Internal laptop 40G HD =========================== # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1: Timing cached reads: 1672 MB in 2.00 seconds = 835.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 78 MB in 3.00 seconds = 26.00 MB/sec Copied a directory to /UBA1 and it's OK. I may try sometime to install Mandrake 10.1 Official (9.2 would be fine if only it would install) on another USB HD and give it a try to see how it works on the laptop. Hope this helps anyone contemplating such a move. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 00:43 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
* added "alias block-major-8 usb-storage" to /etc/modprobe.conf
Excuse me but what is the advantage of adding "alias block-major-8 usb-storage" to /etc/modprobe.conf. I have used a couple of usb hd setups (with and without subfs) on SuSE9.2 and I never added anything to /etc/modprobe.conf TIA James
James PEARSON wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 00:43 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
* added "alias block-major-8 usb-storage" to /etc/modprobe.conf
Excuse me but what is the advantage of adding "alias block-major-8 usb-storage" to /etc/modprobe.conf.
I have used a couple of usb hd setups (with and without subfs) on SuSE9.2 and I never added anything to /etc/modprobe.conf
TIA James
I had to do that so the usb-storage module would load at boot. I have also seen "alias block-major-8 sd_mod", but that doesn't see my usb-storage device as /dev/sda1. perhaps it's the kernel.org kernels I'm using which see it as /dev/uba1. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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