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Dear Peter
I currently use centos 4.3 (a clone of red hat enterprise 4) and can use
USB disks with no problems. So, I find it very surprising the RHEL4
doesn't support USB disks.
John
Peter Brick wrote:
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Dear all,
It is obviously convenient to use USB disks rather than tape drives to
transfer diffraction images from synchrotrons to the lab. Unfortunately, my
current Linux distribution RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4 U3) (based on
kernel 2.6.9) does not support USB disks. I find this surprising. RHEL4 is
convenient, Dell ships PCs with it installed and we have an institutional
license that allows me to run up2date locally.
I'm considering moving to Fedora Core 5 (FC5) (based on kernel 2.6.16).
1. Can FC5 handle usb disks? (USB 2.0)
2. Does the nVidia Quadro video card driver package (version 8762) support
stereo under FC5?
3. Have the issues with the switch to a different Fortran front end to the
compiler been fully resolved? ie can I compile the CCP4 package with full
optimization?
4. Are there other issues I should be aware of? I learn from the FC5
release notes that serial mice are no longer supported. I still have a
couple of older workstations with these.
My alternative is to stay with RHEL4 and use a Mac or PC to transfer the
data and wait for the next RHEL release. I know that there are many other
excellent Linux distributions out there - I'm just assuming that moving to
FC5 from RHEL will give me an easier learning curve.
Many thanks
Peter
