Linux? At the time I bought that box it was the only one on the market for which there were reports that it worked with Linux. And paying more definitely doesn't ensure you get a better product. Certainly not something that will work with Linux! -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> Like cars (and lots of other machinery), you often get what you pay for... > this is why we see many Volvo's with 500k+ miles, have you ever seen > that on a Geo or other sub-$10k (new price) car? > > No surprise. Get rid of the junk. Stop screwing around and get some > decent gear :) > Problem solved! > > ~ben > > > > On Dec 14, 2007 1:44 PM, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Allen Brown wrote: >> >> Allen, >> >> Is this a generic USB sled or is this a prepackaged USB HDD? I've >> >> found a few USB sleds that are useless and have seen the same thing >> you >> >> reported: Hard locks after a few gigs of transfer. Others are bullet >> >> proof. In fact I do 80gb of backup, in a single copy, every week to >> one >> >> with ZERO problems. Been going strong now for months. I've also got a >> >> couple of Western Digital USB drives that I use for storing VMWare >> >> images on that I copy back and forth to my laptop with no issues. The >> >> new Seagate drives are crap. They tend to go to 'sleep' on their own >> and >> >> there seems to be no way to wake them up without restarting them. Of >> >> course that may be fixed. The one I bought went back after I realized >> >> the cause of my problem. >> >> >> >> Garl >> >> >> > >> > The one I experienced is a sled. I bought it long ago. ME-320 >> > ADU235W. A web search finds this (after so many years!) >> > http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1117 >> > >> > Where people are mentioning freezing. So I think you are onto >> something. >> > >> > As for my friend's experience, I don't know the exact device he >> > was talking to. >> > >> Yup. Sounds very similar to what I saw. On the plus side this is the >> sled I've been using successfully for a while now. As a bonus it's got >> eSATA if speed is really an issue (like during a big recover). >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145167 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
