That's fine. But this isn't a hardware problem. It's a software problem in the kernel. Or more like a software philosophy problem which shows up in almost all of the USB drivers. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> Wha?? KBob *IS* a local hardware guru... and he uses USB to boot > linux if I've been following this thread correctly... > What I have assimilated from this is that USB support for virtual > machines is the problematic area. > > ~ben > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The local gurus claim the USB code in Linux kernel isn't written >> well enough to be used as a main disk replacement. Unreliable. >> It deadlocks. YMMV >> -- >> Allen Brown >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown >> >>> Sorry for the late reply. Our DSL line was down for five days. >>> >>> marbux wrote: >>> >>>> Are read/write speeds comparable? I have a vague recollection of >>>> someone saying USB hard drives suffer from lower data transfer rates. >>> >>> USB is slightly slower but not enough to matter, IMO. That's assuming >>> the drive inside has good performance and is not El Cheapo. >>> >>> Today's fastest desktop drives can sustain 100 MB/sec. High Speed USB >>> 2.0's speed of light is 60 MB/sec. But "typical use" doesn't use full >>> bandwidth often. Seek speed matters more, and that's effectively >>> equal for USB and SATA. >>> >>>> I'd appreciate a short list of major losses in functionality. Running >>>> Kubuntu Hardy on Virtual Box/WinXP has worked for me thus far, but I >>>> haven't tried everything I might want to do and wouldn't want to box >>>> myself in too tightly. And my fantasy is to in effect swap what is >>>> host and what is guest. >>> >>> Things that might not work on a guest VM: video playback, 3D, special >>> USB devices such as webcams, phones or cameras, switching monitor >>> resolution, multiple monitors. I'm a hardware junkie -- I always have >>> something in my configuration that the original developers didn't >>> think of. >>> >>> -- >>> Bob Miller K<bob> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> EUGLUG mailing list >>> euglug@euglug.org >>> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
