** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <carville@xxxxxxx> on Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:06:07 -0800 > On Monday 24 March 2003 10:54 pm, Jack Bowling wrote: > > ** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <carville@xxxxxxx> on Mon, > 24 Mar 2003 20:23:38 -0800 > > > > > I have been looking at getting an external USB drive for backing > up > > > files on my home network and I see the Maxtor 3000LE (120 GB) is > > > selling for around $200 FRN's. I know the Linux kernel supports > USB > > > but how well does it work? I've read some horror stories about > > > poorly designed devices that do not support the specification well > > > and make up for their sins by diddling the drivers -- an option > not > > > easily available in Linux. > > > > FWIW, I have two USB 2 devices, an Epson scanner and a 6-in-1 card > reader, and they both installed and work flawlessly. > > That was useful information. Thank you. I should say that I installed a separate USB 2 pci hub. Here is how usbview sees that (kinda cute how the "manufacturer" is my kernel version :)): NEC Corporation USB 2.0 Manufacturer: Linux 2.4.21-pre5 ehci-hcd Serial Number: 00:0a.2 Speed: 480Mb/s (high) Number of Ports: 5 Bandwidth allocated: 0 / 800 (0%) Total number of interrupt requests: 1 Total number of isochronous requests: 0 USB Version: 2.00 Device Class: 09(hub ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 01 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8 Number of Configurations: 1 And here are the relevant parts from usbview for the devices on the hub: EPSON Scanner Manufacturer: EPSON Speed: 480Mb/s (high) USB Version: 2.00 Device Class: ff(vend.) Device Subclass: ff Device Protocol: ff Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 04b8 Product Id: 0112 Revision Number: 1.01 ImageMate 6 in 1 Manufacturer: SanDisk Ltd Serial Number: 101026105633 Speed: 480Mb/s (high) USB Version: 2.00 Device Class: 00(>ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 0781 Product Id: 0621 Revision Number: 0.05 I had to setup the scanner in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf but the card reader Just Worked with the following in /etc/fstab: /dev/sde1 /mnt/flash1 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 I have another Usb 1.1 card reader as /mnt/flash so the USB 2 one is seen as /mtn/flash1. jb -- Jack Bowling mailto:jbinpg@xxxxxxx Prince George, BC -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
