Hi there, On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Nathan Ehresman wrote:
> I'm new to USB and am looking at the possibility of using USB hard drives I'm using USB Zip drives successfully with kernel 2.5.69, the latest hotplug release and of course the mass-storage driver. I had a lot of trouble with earlier kernels and I still get problems if do things in the wrong order. Still can't mount/read-write/unmount/remount (the second mount fails) but if I mount/read-write/unmount/unplug/plug/mount that's OK. If I remove modules I can crash the system. It's on my TODO list to look into all that. In other words it's all a bit flaky but workable if you're patient. I don't know what the internals of the USB Zip drive look like, but I've seen quite a few people reporting problems with USB-IDE interface type hard drives. No experience of them myself. I use the Zip drives just to transport bukly information over long distances where there is no network connection between the computers. You asked about backup. In view of the fact that if you're backing up you generally want it to be 100% reliable, I wouldn't recommend USB for backup of anything - especially not if there are students around. Is there any particular reason for using USB? I'd have thought that backing up over a network to a fixed disc would be preferable. 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
