On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:56, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 21:51, Ashley Gould wrote:

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Hi list

Does anyone have good experiences with a particular usb2 external disk drive?

What kind of capacity and form factor are you looking for ? Lots of choices available (and potential dangers...)

I have a big, hefty, old 30G buslogic external drive that had worked fine (with kernel 2.4), but required a kernel patch and special driver to make work. It's mostly collecting dust now that the driver author is unable to maintain it for kernel 2.6.

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/cdetail10047.html

I also have a slim, svelte, ultra-portable 20G SmartDisk Firefly drive. Fits in the palm. Super thin. Requires no AC adapter. And requires no special driver shenanigans with SuSE 9.2 (kernel 2.6). Just plugs in and works on my Linux machines and my Windoze box at work. I highly recommended it.

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/cdetail12128.html

I have a couple of Anypac drives, and I have been very happy with same. They come in a nice slim, easy access, leather pack 8 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm. One is 20 GB the other 40 GB. The 20 GB requires no extra power, and automounts well on my SuSE 9.1 and my XP (yeah, I've got an old laptop). The 40 GB requires connection through a powered hub. And, not recommended, but I have dropped them both. Regards, Colin

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:08:38 +0100 Sid Boyce wrote:

Ashley Gould wrote:

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Hi list

Does anyone have good experiences with a particular usb2 external disk drive?

I saw an enclosure for USB2/Firewire at a reasonable price, bought it, put a spare 120G IDE inside, plugged it into a USB port on my x86_64 laptop, fdisk, mkreiserfs and I use it to backup critical files from 5 boxes. It simply works. Regards Sid. --

I have a similar experience with a USB enclosure and a 16G (spare) drive. The only thing that I have noticed is that to mount the drive SuSE seems only happy to do it right after a bootup with the drive on. it is known as /dev/sda1 - and mounts. However, after booted wait 10 minutes, turn the USB drive on, check to see if the system sees it ( lsusb ), then try to mount and I get that "drive is not a block device " error. Works great when it works.

Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

73 de Donn Washburn aka N5XWB

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Donn L Washburn [04-14-05 06:29]:

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The only thing that I have noticed is that to mount the drive SuSE seems only happy to do it right after a bootup with the drive on. it is known as /dev/sda1 - and mounts. However, after booted wait 10 minutes, turn the USB drive on, check to see if the system sees it ( lsusb ), then try to mount and I get that "drive is not a block device " error. Works great when it works.

simple solution: as root - "rchotplug restart"

"rchotplug restart" is the same as "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart" I tried that and it did not fix the problem. "hwinfo" and "lsusb" (which reads /proc for the info) find the sda1 device but SuSE refuses to mount it. I have tried re-pluging it in and still no luck unless it happens a bootup. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb@hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb@arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

The Thursday 2005-04-14 at 21:16 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

bummer. I have found that ..most.. usb devices will work this way, but my epson usb printer will not. It must be connected and *on* at boot or will not be recognized without a reboot.

Just a very wild guess: does your printer has both an usb and a standard (traditional PC) printer port? It could be that the printer is too clever and only enables the usb interface if is connected to something active when it is powered up. Kind of :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson