Nathan,
I've been wanting to do the same thing you described for a while as well. I currently use high capacity (160G) IDE drives as network backup devices. I have them in removeable carriers in my desktop so I can regularly swap them out and have one off-site for safe keeping. The biggest hastle is I need to power down to do the swap.
I first made the mistake of picking up an enclosure that the seller "claimed" was Linux compatible. A fought with it for a while and never got it working, not once. I don't have an XP machine handy to try it there to make sure the box isn't defective or something.
I then checked on another forum for recommendations and ended up with an ADS enclosure, which is supposed to work with hard drives up to 200G.
I initially tested it with an old small IDE drive I had lying around and it worked great. Then I put in one of my 160G drives in and then the problems began:
Jun 4 00:37:11 penguin kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.3-1, assigned address 4
Jun 4 00:37:15 penguin /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 6e1/d185/1
Jun 4 00:37:15 penguin devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
Jun 4 00:37:30 penguin kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 4 00:37:30 penguin kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Jun 4 00:37:30 penguin kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 4 00:37:42 penguin kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 4 00:37:42 penguin kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=69337100, limit=1586560
Jun 4 00:37:42 penguin kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jun 4 00:37:42 penguin kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=69206036, limit=1586560
Jun 4 00:37:42 penguin kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
I haven't had time to figure out what the problme is yet as I only got the enclosure yesterday.
Sometimes I wish more things "just worked"....
Nathan Ehresman wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm new to USB and am looking at the possibility of using USB hard drives for backing up user space here in the Computer Science department at Taylor University. We currently do lots of tape backups, but are looking at other possibilities, USB being one. Does anybody on this list have experience under Linux using USB drives for backup and would you be interested in sharing your experiences with it?
-- Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ greg @ gulik.org
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