Guest dturley Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I'm trying to find a backup solution for my laptop (on all the time.) Only real option seems to be USB. I know USB is slow, but file copying will be done overnight. I'm using MD 8.2. USB (1 and 2 compatable) drives seem to be pretty cheap. I assume I'll have to use USB 1, rather than 2 with MD 8.2 stock kernel. Does anyone have any experience? Is it a simple mount ... (like with my camera?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktambascio Posted November 27, 2002 Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 From work, I got a unit that you can put an old laptop hard drive into this shell, and plug it into USB port, and its an external hard drive. I was able to get Mandrake to recognize it, after rebooting with it plugged in. it put it at /mnt/removable. Seems to work pretty good. I did have to use drakdisk to format it. I first formatted it in Windows XP, but Linux couldn't read it. makes you wonder what XP has done to FAT 32. When I reformatted as FAT 32 through drakdisk, a reboot, it appeared. works great. good luck, Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnKFT Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 I am looking to do the same as dturley - usb 2nd hdd on Dell Inspiron 7500 running 8.2. I have my eye on an Iomega 20GB USB2 portable hdd. Is this likely to work OK for my setup - I assume I have USB1.1 which I understand works, albeit 20 times slower than USB2? After my nightmares getting first the modem then the scanner to work in Linux I am wary!! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktambascio Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 If you put this line in your fstab file, it will mount automatically: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat umask=0 0 0 any USB storage device gets mounted as a SCSI harddrive. /dev/sda1 being the first SCSI drive. -Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dturley Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 Thanks ktambascio, that was my guess. Now I'll just need to be brave enough to fight the post-Thanksgiving shpping crowds and get to the mall. :-/ But this now brings up another question. I have a usb camera that gets mounted with the same command/fstab entry. I've noticed that if I mount the camera with a 64MB memorey card in it, and later try to mount is with another sized card, like a 8MB, I get errors. Even manaullly removing the sda1 device that gets created doesn't help. The only way to mount the camera with a changed memory card, is to reboot. (I've posted about this before, never heard a solution.) Now I'm curious, if the drive is mounted and I then go to mount the camera, is devfs "smart" enough to create another device, like sda2? I can see where this is going to get edit or reboot intensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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