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Hi Folks, On this matter I have always used SuSE linux and never had a problem. In particular, hardware support has always seemed to be pretty solid. I have a number of iomega and maxtor disks which support both USB and firewire - typically firewire is slightly quicker, but the difference is small. SuSE 10+ do a particularly good job of handling firewire/USB. My only gripe is that the only filesystem to give even moderately respectable performance for integrating images is FAT32, which is very primative. However, if you're looking for a medium for bringing-frames-home-from-the-beamline you probably won't find anything better. Can't comment on the specific graphic card you refer to, but I would anticipate decent support for the card - I have never tried stereo. Regards, Graeme ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 07/07/2006 4:06 PM To: Peter Brick Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: USB disks and Linux distributions *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** Indeed the RHEL4 release notes state that the "initial release" does not support USB disks. Obviously they had some problems with the implementation, but I am quite sure they fixed it by now. So before leaving for another distribution make sure your system is updated to the latest release. That said, USB on linux is a pain most of the time, often related to permission issues rather than support by the kernel. Support for different types of USB chipsets may also vary. Personally, I would not recommend FC (I don't like beta software). Greetings Oliver ------------------------------- Dr. Oliver H. Weiergraeber Institute for Neurosciences and Biophysics - Structural Biology - Research Centre Juelich D-52425 Juelich Germany Phone: +49-2461-612028 Fax: +49-2461-612020 ------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 7, 2006 4:12 pm Subject: [ccp4bb]: USB disks and Linux distributions > *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** > *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** > > > 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 > institutionallicense 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) > supportstereo 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 > otherexcellent Linux distributions out there - I'm just assuming > that moving to > FC5 from RHEL will give me an easier learning curve. > > Many thanks > > Peter > > -- > Peter Brick, > Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, > Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, > Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BW, UK > Tel: 020-7594-7704 Fax: 020-7589-0191 > > >
