On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:15:27PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The question is whether you need fast disks. Because I'm porting > Debian to a number of mips based wireless routers to which you can > connect a usb driver and run Debian on it. See > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/bcm947xx/ They are completely silent > (apart from the USB disk but a 2.5" disk is pretty quiet).
the disk probably doesn't need to be fast, but i don't think a 2.5" disk in a usb case is good for round the clock operation. in general my experience with linux usb support is rather disappointing so that i don't really trust that in a server either. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B?hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
