Hani Duwaik wrote: > I know this isn't specifically a Gentoo issue, but it's what I use and > if any patches/changes are necessary, I'd like to know the Gentoo > specific ones. > > I'm interested in using Iomega's Rev Drive (probably the USB 2.0 > version) to backup some large files/directories on my system. > However, before I purchase the drive, I want to know if anyone has > used/is using this drive successfully on Gentoo without any third > party software. > > Specifically, is anyone able to simply connect the drive, insert a > disk, mount it and create a filesystem? > > I understand that the Rev Drive uses a UDF-like filesystem. If it is > possible to mount the disk and create a udf filesystem, can the same > drive/disk be mounted on other OSs (ie: Windows or Mac OS X)? > > TIA, > > -Hani >
I imagine that it is a usb mass storage device (usb-storage driver). AFAIK mkudffs from the udf-tools package will produce filesystems that interoperate with other OSs. You probably want to have a look at http://iomrrdtools.sourceforge.net/. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
