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Now it's a struggle... |
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1) Main machine, AMD64K8 3000+ (running 32-bit mode). Used to be able |
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to plug in and mount external USB drives and memory cards in the card |
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reader. Now the mount command has to be issued twice, or sometimes even |
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an "fdisk /dev/sdb", in order to wake up the card reader. My |
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"shirtpocket" drive no longer works on the machine, and neither does the |
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big bulky external USB drive. |
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2) Emergency backup machine, 6-year-old Dell, 450 mhz PIII (they don't |
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build them like that any more). USB drives used to run (well, with USB |
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v1.1, "crawl" might be more accurate) on that machine. The big bulky |
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external one still does. The "shirtpocket" drive doesn't. I normally |
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store it in my safety deposit box as my "offsite backup". |
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I can still backup my main machine to the big USB drive by attaching |
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it to the emergency machine and scp stuff to a temporary directory on |
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the Dell, and then mount the USB drive and copy from the temporary |
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directory at "blazing" USB v1.1 speed. |
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I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system |
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and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup |
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changed somehow? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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