Philip Stubbs wrote: > I remember seeing a simple device that would allow USB hard drives to > be connected. This is the sort of thing that I had in mind, but > wondered if anybody had any experience with something like this a bit > more recently. > I have been using a Linksys NSLU2 for several years now, works reliably, with 2 USB disks currently attached (actually a hard disk and a flash drive). I did reflash it with a new OS (I think I used UnsLUng 5.5 - a very old version), but the original OS was fine. I did try to get it to run as a print server, but the compact flash socket on my Photosmart P1100 confused it - it worked fine with a Deskjet 930C. The only drawback I have is that it takes a while to get going (e.g. do an ls of a drive that you have mounted remotely, and it takes a couple of seconds to respond. Do the same ls a few seconds later and it responds immediately). Available from Amazon [1] for 75 quid. There's an active community for hacking it - see [2] for details.
Simon [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linksys-Cisco-Network-Storage-Drives/dp/B0002ZDQLI [2] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
