Carsten Koch wrote: > Neither is my VDR system even close to the largest one. > I believe that Matthias Schniedermeier has so many disks > in his house that the house no longer requires a separate > heating system. ;-) Not excatly. I would call it "semy-online"-storage. Normaly the HDDs are switched off. But as they are connected to USB-Power-Switches they can be switched on/off automatically by the computer.(*) But nontheless i don't have any "normal" heating system in my cellar and i haven't needed one in the last 2 winters. ;-) *: At least theoretically, currently it seams i've reached a point where Linux has a problem with the shear size of my USB-Tree, or there is a hardware-defect in one of the USB-Hubs that brings down the HUB-Driver of Linux. So until i find the time to "make a full diagnostic" (I'm currently watching Voyager, so please excuse Star Trek Jargon) i'm currently using the "manual override" by manually powering on/off the HDDs and manually plugging a cable directly from to the Root-Hub. As i only have to do this procedure every few weeks, when temporary storage get a bit full, it hasn't be a problem i can't live with for a little while. :-| Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
