Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-30 Thread Chris Robinson
- Original Message From: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com To: Benjamin Donald-Wilson benjamin.donald.wilso...@gmail.com; Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com Sent: Sat, 30 April, 2011 3:56:44 PM Subject: Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0 Thanks folks, I'll get back to you

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-28 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Well then at the very least use ext4. It is the best so far. Ben. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:22, Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com wrote: -- -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread David
Hi folks and thanks for the responses to my earlier questions about PDFs. Now that I assume updates will soon no longer be given for 8.04, I am planning to install 10.04 LTS, and to get a card installed in my existing computer so that it's USB 3.0 compatible, and to get a USB 3.0 external HDD.

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Yes from what I know from it should work. What format are you using for your drive? === Benjamin Donald-Wilson (Age 12) == On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 19:20, David ag...@justemail.net wrote: Hi folks and thanks for the responses to my

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread IKT
It should, support for USB 3.0 was included in linux kernel 2.6.31, 10.04 ships with 2.6.32. On a different discussion I'm loosely watching the new SSD drives that use SATA connections, some of them are blazingly fast.

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread David
Hi Benjamin (and thanks IKT), I don't know much about drive formats (apart from seeing the names FAT32 NTSC). I want to be able to use the drive for external storage / backup, and would want it to be able to work with Ubuntu and with Win 7. I would probably be interested in either a 'Seagate

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Hi Dave, I would use the exFAT format because by the sounds of it your using it on Win 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. The exFAT format supports Win 7 and with the ppa:relan/exfat ppa in Ubuntu you can read write to a exFAT format. Just to let you know you need to format the drive in Win 7 for exFAT as the

Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0

2011-04-25 Thread Chris Robinson
- Original Message From: Benjamin Donald-Wilson benjamin.donald.wilso...@gmail.com To: ag...@justemail.net Cc: Ubuntu ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Tue, 26 April, 2011 9:59:51 AM Subject: Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0 Hi Dave, I would use the exFAT format because by the sounds of it your