[ale] NAS ( + USB, 1394, etc.)

[Christopher Fowler]

I have 2 devices that give USB access to 3.5" drives.  One is a cheap
aluminum enclosure I bought off ebay about 2 years ago.  The second is a
USB -> IDE conenctor that came with a power cable.

I just tested the second and to transfer roughly < 13GB took:

real    67m16.167s
user    0m1.566s
sys     1m40.466s

I'm running FC3.  My original problems were on SuSE 9.  While I agree
that chipsets are usually the main culprit it also seems like Linux is
getting even better.

My only gripe about this setup is size.  I need to carry a solution in
my backpack so I'll be looking for a 2.5" 80GB that can get is power off
USB and be extra slim.  eBay is a good place for that.



On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 20:23 +0000, aaron wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 16:22, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > > You know how long it takes to fsck a 120gb partition on usb 1.1?
> > > On 2.0 I keep getting error messages "refusing I/O to dead device".
> > > If I dropped it to 1.1 it would work but be too slow to be usable.
> > 
> > I use an external USB/FireWire drive for backups and such,
> > and I feel compelled to say: FireWire Rocks! - Fast and Smooth.
> > I even have an extrenal FireWire DVD Burner.. It rocks under Linux or 
> > M$-Crap.
> 
> Have to agree with you on Firewire.
> 
> For a couple of years I have been using various external drives in IEEE-1394 
> (Firewire) A(400) & B(800)  cases for my media work, including a couple of 
> external DVD burners. Most of the disks belong to clients, but I do own a 
> couple of them.  The Firewire storage connectivity has been very reliable 
> with all the OSeX Macs I use and the (Pioneer) DVD burners were total connect 
> and cook with Mandrake linux and a ~$10, 3 port, generic 1394 card.
> 
> One burner case is a USB / 1394 combo so we can  connect USB 2.0 to the one 
> windoze eXcrement Pile system we still have around for legacy support.  We're 
> going to switch the XPee box  over to 1394 so we can support all our data 
> drives there as well, but we have to purchase and install a Mac HFS+ file 
> system utility first.
> 
> I've been watching for HFS+ file system support on Linux (so I can use share 
> my media drives there as well), and it appears there is some revived interest 
> there and some solid solutions may be available soon.
> 
> 
> peace
> aaron
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