Yes, at this point am running just USB 1.1. Everything in the unit's documentation makes it sound like 1.1 should work okay, albeit slower. And it does work at 1.1 on my 98 box. Speed isn't my primary concern, but faster is better. I'll go shopping for a USB 2.0 adapter soon.From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: USB hard drive with Linux? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:27:26 -0700 (PDT)You might be running into problems with the USB bus itself. You didn't say whether or not you were running USB 2.0 or not. If you're using USB 1.x, you're in for a very painful ride. Get an adaptor card (~30 dollars or so) so that you can get the full bandwidth from your 2.0 device.
When you say "painful", do you mean there are more problems, or simply a lot slower?
My purpose for this unit is for short-term backups (flat & reinstall) only (and carrying over to the folk's house to clean up their hosed system. That's why I liked the USB aspect, I could put up with the slowness for the portability. To get 40GB worth of ZIP disks probably would cost $600.with USB. Firstly, I occasionally get "uninterruptable sleeps" on some of my USB devices. In most cases, it requires a hard reset of the system, since at this point the USB drivers cannot relinquish the resources.
Thirdly, Red Hat up to (and including) 8.0 can't seem to unmount the drive
Did you ever get it working under RH7.2?
Forever ~ many hours, overnight, two weeks? I tried overnight and it was still 5xx/1024.And lastly, on my 120GB drive, it took FOREVER to format the drive with ext3 under USB 1.1 (which I did before I got the adaptor card).
Thanks for the help!
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