Re: hot-plug HDDs

[Jason Greenwood]

The other option is to get a USB2 HDD unit that accepts 2.5 in laptop 
drives. Our Image Tank units work great under Linux and are hot 
swappable. The drawback is price as well as the limitations of 2.5 in 
drives. BUT, I am just throwing out all the options here. It just 
appears as an extarnal HDD via SCSI/USB.

Cheers

J

Michael JasonSmith wrote:

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 10:05, Jim Cheetham wrote:
 

Unfortunately, even the 2.6.0_test11 kernel that I have been using has
been failing to write to the disk reliably.
However, in the interests of testing I tried the disk on my iMac (only
USB1). That also failed after writing a couple of Gb. So I'm prepared to
believe that the disk caddy that I have is "useless".
   

I was going to mention the possibility of hardware failure.  As far as
the OS is concerned a IDE HDD in a USB enclosure is the same as a
solid-state USB "pen" drive: a SCSI HDD attached to the USB bus.  If
writing fails for one but not the other I would suspect a hardware
fault.
If you had the time, money and inclination you could try Firewire
(IEEE1394).  I understand that it has /slightly/ better transfer speeds
than USB2 (despite the what the raw MB/s say).