I need to backup a customer's SCO OpenServer system next week before they make an office move. My plan is to do a normal BackupEdge backup to tape, and to back it up over the network to an external 120GB hard drive connected to my ThinkPad 600 via a USB connection. I had done some testing on the USB backups this way a couple of weeks ago using an ADS external box, and it seemed to work.
Today I bought an Acom Data external box that handles Firewire and USB 2.0, plugged it into a Mandrake 9.0 system with Firewire, and it worked fine. I tried it on the USB 1.0 port then on a SCO Linux 4.0 (UnitedLinux) system, but it wouldn't recognize the USB device at all. I put it back on the Mandrake box using USB 1.0 where it recognized it as a disk, but when I tried fdisk /dev/sdc it didn't recognize the drive at all (/dev/sda is a real SCSI160 drive, /dev/sdb is a mounted FireWire drive). It appears then that I'm going to have to use Firewire on the laptop (or get one of the ADS chassis which I know works). The problem now becomes, which pcmcia firewire, and it needs to work with a network card in the lower pcmcia slot. I have to make sure I have a working NIC since the one I'm using now is a Xircom that takes both slots. It appears that there's an Adaptec Firewire card which has a fat external end, but that will allow a skinny NIC with dongle in the lower slot Anybody have any experience with these? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer (1891) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
