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