[PLUG] USB hard drive with Linux?

[Russell Evans]

Everything you did is what I did. I've tried a similar setup and finally
switched to a firewire drive. I can run a cdrom from the USB box fine but a
hard drive will time out on large file operations. I did get the drive to
format but was unable to copy much to it without the drive locking up.

I tried the box in a USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 port on the Linux with the same
results. I couldn't get the box to work on a Win2k, with USB 1.1, box either. 

Thank you
Russell

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:48:12 -0700 (PDT), Steven Raymond said:

>  Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  I have read about
>  some usbide drivers but don't understand when or whether these
>  are needed, given the output of cat /proc/bus/usb/devices above
>  (doesn't that mean I already have drivers loaded?)
>  http://bravin.home.cern.ch/bravin/usbide/usbide.html
>  
>  Does it stand to reason that if fdisk is working fine, that I
>  can create a partition which fdisk can read later, that all the
>  drivers are working correctly and it is now just a matter of
>  correctly creating a file system & mounting?