[ale] USB external HDD !!UPDATE!!

[H. Adrin Story]

Well, I cam across a 120Gig IDE drive.  Spent some more time at Frys and 
got a NexStar.  While I think the drive was a return, it had a install 
of Win XP home edition on it.  Not wanting that I removed the partition 
and formatted it to FAT32.  All from my Slackware 2.6 kernel.  I have 
yet to test the drive on a windows machine. Maybe I should do that at 
some point. Since this is how I plan to use it.

The setup is giving me about 4.0MB/s on larger files peek.  The average 
when the file is done appears to be more like 2.5MB/s   This is using 
rsync, from the usb drive to a local drive.  I have been off and on 
remotely using rsync to get files of a remote server for most of the 
weekend.

By the way the NexStar was about $40.00 looks like the cheaper $29.00 
where all but sold out when I was there.

Now if I could just figure out why /dev/sda /dev/sda1 keep disappearing 
when I unmount the drive.



H. A. Story wrote:
> This may have come up before. Sorry if it has.  I have played around 
> with my USB stick and got it to work with my slackware box.  Love it.
> 
> 
> What I am looking for now is a external HDD USB would offer me the most. 
>  I don't have firewire right now.  I understand that the device needs to 
> support Mass storage standards(?).  I most have spent a good 30 minutes 
> at frys on Sunday looking at the drives and didn't see one that even 
> said it would support Mass Storage. currently looking at the network 
> accessible drives too, but maybe later when the cost comes down.
> 
> Does anyone know of a list that shows which ones work with Linux?  I 
> wonder how safe I would be going by the compatible with MAC OS 8.6 or 
> higher on statement the box also.
> 
> 
> Then later I will have to wonder what is the best cross platform format.
> FAT,FAT32,NTFS,or Linux) probably the old FAT32 so I can read/write with 
>  Linux and Windows.
> 
> 
> Adrin
> 
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