Greg Freemyer wrote:
Per,
I'm the heavy external drive connected via USB hub user on the list.
Anker brand USB 3 hubs are the only ones I trust. I've bought and discarded 2 other brands.
fyi: My 64GB lab machine currently has about 20 external USB drives hooked up to it. It's been that way for over a week. With the non-Anker hubs I would see USB connection disconnects/re-connects at least once every 24 hours, so I couldn't maintain a long term mount like this.
Thanks Greg, that confirms my suspicion. My hub really was just a cheapo (SFr9 I think), so if it's a little dodgy, I'm not surprised. Compiling the kernel with -j4 produced hiccups every 5 mins.
fyi2: I've never gone past /dev/sdz (ie. the 26th drive in a system) but I'm now close enough to think about it. What comes after /dev/sdz?
The enumeration starts over at sdax: # lsscsi [1:0:0:0] cd/dvd COMPAQ CD-ROM SN-124 N104 /dev/sr0 [3:0:0:0] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sda [3:0:0:1] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdb [3:0:0:2] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdc [3:0:0:20] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sds [3:0:0:21] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdd [3:0:0:22] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sde [3:0:0:23] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdf [3:0:0:24] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdg [3:0:0:25] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdh [3:0:0:26] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdi [3:0:0:27] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdj [3:0:0:28] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdk [3:0:0:29] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdl [3:0:0:30] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdm [3:0:0:31] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdn [3:0:0:32] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdo [3:0:0:33] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdp [3:0:0:34] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdt [3:0:0:35] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdu [3:0:0:36] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdv [3:0:0:37] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdw [3:0:0:38] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdx [3:0:0:39] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdy [3:0:0:40] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdz [3:0:0:41] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdq [3:0:0:42] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdr [3:0:0:43] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdai [3:0:0:44] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdaa [3:0:0:45] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdae [3:0:0:46] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdab [3:0:0:47] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdaf [3:0:0:48] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdad [3:0:0:49] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdag [3:0:0:50] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdac [3:0:0:51] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdah [3:0:0:52] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdaj [3:0:0:53] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdak [3:0:0:54] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdal [3:0:0:55] disk IET VIRTUAL-DISK 0 /dev/sdam [7:0:0:0] disk LIO-ORG IBLOCK 4.0 /dev/sdan [7:0:0:1] disk LIO-ORG IBLOCK 4.0 /dev/sdao -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org