Hi All-- OK, I installed my Orange PCI card, added another half-gig memory, changed out the HSF for a quieter one, booted, configured the USB card, checked devices & dmesg, etc.
I plugged in a 2.0 hub; it found all four ports. I plugged in the 120GB disk; found it. Ran fsck on the vfat file system; it reported that FAT32 was still alpha (I'm using RH 7.3 with a 2.4.18-3 kernel). Mounted the filesystem, auto; system discovered the filesystem was FAT32. Copied a 2-GB directory. Copying the whole thing (cp -r) was dog slow, but when I copied individual files and groups of files, it seemed quite speedy. Peculiarity of FAT32 on Linux, maybe? Then I tried to chown on the directory, and it told me, 'chown: changing ownership of `/usbhd/Barb': Operation not permitted' (I hadn't done chmod -R, simply chmod...). Is this another peculiarity of vfat on Linux? RH7.3? (Yes, I'm root.) Any advice is appreciated. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
