lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:

I am looking to buy a usb enclosure for my brother, as he has one with the problematic prolific chipset. I am wondering who has one and what chipset is uses as he wants to boot from this and use it as a portable drive for system updates and security patchs (he is on dialup in the country).

Any help is appreciated thanks Randal

I'm using a 120G IDE HD in a Prolific Technology Inc. enclosure, I don't know the specific chipset it uses, but it's a unit that has 2 firewire ports and 1 USB 2.0 port. I did fdisk/mkreiserfs/mkswap to it connected to the USB port. This is on an Acer 1501LCe x86_64 laptop with 9.2 x86_64 installed. I'm using bleeding edged kernel.org kernels on it, so it's detected as /dev/uba (the new standard USB Block device) instead of /dev/sda pretend-scsi. I have /dev/uba1 mounted as /UBA1 and /dev/uba2 used as swap. I've rsync'd stuff over to it from another box, in excess of 2GB in one go, so it's fully functional. It just needed the usb-storage module loaded, but it's seen during boot as usb 4-2: Product: ATAPI-6 Bridge Controller usb 4-2: Manufacturer Prolific Technology Inc. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====