On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:35:07PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > 2. Use IDE drives inside a USB 2.0 adapter. Buy a few removable IDE > adapters and mount one case inside an external USB IDE adapter. This > allows you to easilly (no screwdrivers) replace the disks. If your > storage volume is as you describe it, fairly small disks should suffice. > Store several backups on each drive, and you are not wasting much space. > As for verify - it is easier for drives. Most drives support SMART. > Unfortunately, in order to run SMART tools on an IDE disk connected via > USB (same goes for SATA) you need to patch your kernel. I don't think > there is any distribution that ships kernels pre-patched with this > patch, but I may be wrong on this one.
Got a URI for the patch? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
