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James Wright

3 May 2005 3 May '05

21:07

A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

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Greg Freemyer

3 May 3 May

23:14

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues. Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas? I find USB automount in 9.2 is flakey and ttroublesome. I have not tried Firewire, but I've been told it was unreliable in 2.6.x vanilla a few months ago, so I have steered clear of 9.2 / firewire. Either of those working better would be justification enough for me to upgrade. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

Mirko Perak

23:36

New subject: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 01:14, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues.

Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas?

I find USB automount in 9.2 is flakey and ttroublesome.

I have not tried Firewire, but I've been told it was unreliable in 2.6.x vanilla a few months ago, so I have steered clear of 9.2 / firewire.

I have FireWire externel HDD, and it's working OK here on SUSE 9.2. I've installed cheap PCI FireWire card, my PC is little old. -- Mirko

Jack Malone

4 May 4 May

02:42

New subject: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review

At 06:14 PM 5/3/2005, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues.

Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas?

as soon as i get my office back together from having new carpet put in an get my machines backup an running I will see if i can test out my wd 250 usb/firewire external drive on my one machine i have had time to install 9.3 on jack

Peter B Van Campen

02:46

New subject: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:42, Jack Malone wrote:

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At 06:14 PM 5/3/2005, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues.

Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas?

as soon as i get my office back together from having new carpet put in an get my machines backup an running I will see if i can test out my wd 250 usb/firewire external drive on my one machine i have had time to install 9.3 on

Hi Jack, 9.3 treats my ext USB 2.0 WD160 just fine. This is the first rel from SUSE that has had outstanding USB functioning. PeterB

Peter B Van Campen

02:49

New subject: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:14, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues.

Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas?

I find USB automount in 9.2 is flakey and ttroublesome.

I have not tried Firewire, but I've been told it was unreliable in 2.6.x vanilla a few months ago, so I have steered clear of 9.2 / firewire.

Either of those working better would be justification enough for me to upgrade.

Hi Greg, I have noted no problems with my USB 'thumb' drives (flash memory) not with my USB 2.0 HD 160GB hard drive. I have had none of the lockups that previous releases have had. The automount seems ok, but there are sometimes odd delays which I attribute to the 'hotplug' subsys. PeterB

Carl William Spitzer IV

21:58

New subject: [SLE] Excellent 9.3 Review

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:14, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On 5/3/05, James Wright wrote:

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A great review from E-Week at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1790700,00.asp

The article does not address the USB automount logic, nor Firewire issues.

Can anyone say how 9.3 compares to 9.2 in those 2 areas?

I find USB automount in 9.2 is flakey and ttroublesome.

I have not tried Firewire, but I've been told it was unreliable in 2.6.x vanilla a few months ago, so I have steered clear of 9.2 / firewire.

If ;your bleeding edge on hardware your taking chances. If its working in 9.1 or 8.2 then check your fstab you might have to backgrade your mounting methods or go entirely manual. Remember in linux there are usually 6 ways to do something. If the latest bleeding edge convience like subfs or autofs are too beta use the old ways. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Carl William Spitzer IV
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James Wright
Mirko Perak
Peter B Van Campen