Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:55, Dave Lane wrote:
I have tried removable USB drives (Dick Smith sells the caddies for
about $160 which take any 3.5" IDE drive), but had major problems with
USB driver support (USB2 led to consistent crashes, USB1.1 was flakey
and so slow as to
The other option is to get a USB2 HDD unit that accepts 2.5 in laptop
drives. Our Image Tank units work great under Linux and are hot
swappable. The drawback is price as well as the limitations of 2.5 in
drives. BUT, I am just throwing out all the options here. It just
appears as an extarnal HD
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 10:05, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> Unfortunately, even the 2.6.0_test11 kernel that I have been using has
> been failing to write to the disk reliably.
>
> However, in the interests of testing I tried the disk on my iMac (only
> USB1). That also failed after writing a couple of Gb.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:55:19AM +1300, Dave Lane wrote:
> Hi folks - unfortunately, in general IDE hotswapping is not possible due
> to limits to the IDE architecture. Moreover, most BIOs can't deal with
> drive geometry changes after boot... Note, I'm not aware of any IDE
The OS couldn't
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:55, Dave Lane wrote:
> I have tried removable USB drives (Dick Smith sells the caddies for
> about $160 which take any 3.5" IDE drive), but had major problems with
> USB driver support (USB2 led to consistent crashes, USB1.1 was flakey
> and so slow as to be unusable) in
Hi folks - unfortunately, in general IDE hotswapping is not possible due
to limits to the IDE architecture. Moreover, most BIOs can't deal with
drive geometry changes after boot... Note, I'm not aware of any IDE
RAID cards that support hot swapping either - it would require
significant additi
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:26, CF wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > The cradles are fine, but I'm not confident about introducing an IDE
> > drive while the machine is powered up. I suppose if that worked it'd be
> > fine :-) and in fact in the short term that's the rout
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:15 PM, chris bayley wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> >>> I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about
> >>> 50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds.
> >
> > What a
Hi-ho,
Don't mean to be picky, but sca SCSI drives are hot swappable, by
themselves but as a backup medium they'd be a tad expensive!
The only options for IDE are to either buy an IDE raid controller, which
tricks the OS into thinking the drive is still there when it fails (is
unplugged) or turn
> The cradles are fine, but I'm not confident about introducing an IDE
> drive while the machine is powered up.
Good, and I strongly suggest you keep it that way. ;)
Connecting/disconnecting an IDE bus while it's powered up is liable to
fry controller, disk, or both. Those cradles have a lock for
On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:15 PM, chris bayley wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about
50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds.
What about plain old IDE - in hot swap cradles ?
The cradles are fine, but I'm no
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:15, chris bayley wrote:
> What about plain old IDE - in hot swap cradles ?
Yeah that work, but - and there's always a but, I wanna be able to plug
in any ol' drive and have it work. Period.
Is that too much to ask?
--
Paul Wilkins
Matthew Gregan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about
50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds.
Any details of a working configuration would give me hope ...
I've heard lots of similar s
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about
> 50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds.
> Any details of a working configuration would give me hope ...
I've heard lots of similar sad stories--things don't look p
Has anyone successfully set up a hot-pluggable hard drive under Linux
here? The point is to have off-site backup volumes in units of 120Gb :-)
I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about
50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds.
With EHCI drivers (under 2.6.0-test11) it all s
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