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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: |
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> Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> > I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk |
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> > Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. |
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> > Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I |
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> > worry about drivers? |
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> Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the USB mass-storage driver. You'll |
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Great! |
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> need: |
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> CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) |
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> CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) |
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> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) |
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Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Is there some |
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documentation about it that I should know of? |
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> After connecting the disk, check dmesg to see which device has been created. |
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> Most probably it's /dev/sda, if you don't have any other SCSI/USB disks. |
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Thanks. |
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Jorge |
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