Hi everyone..
After a rather nasty experiance with a server reload and reconfiguration
caused by not doing regular backups..
I decided that I would give this otherwise unsavory task some thought..
I have a Hewlet Packard USB CD-RW drive... which is basically a HP IDE CDRW
(it used to have a 8000 series drive, but I changed it to a 9500 series) in
an external case with a USB adaptor and a power supply.
I want to get it to work in Linux, (I currently have MDK7.2 with the
2.2.19-4MDK kernel, ReiserFS on a PII450 128mb ram BX Chipset and a 20 gig
ata100 harddisk (although the bx chipset supports only 33 I think.)
Anyway, that computer, when loaded with win98SE and win2000 worked
fantastic... now I want to get the same results with Linux. I know I can get
it working in Linux by removing the drive from the USB case and just
installing it as an IDE drive, but I really need to keep it in the case as I
use the drive to back up other machines as well.
But I have heard many bad stories about USB and linux, particularly with
Burners.
Has anyone got a setup like that working?
If so, what did you have to do? and what version of MDK were you using?
Also, assuming it was possible to get it working, does linux support
re-writable CD's? and if so what programs (preferably GUI but not
necessary) would I use to backup over multiple CD's.
I am writting this while my win2000 notebook (which I am writing this from)
is backing itself up via the above burner now..)
If it can't be done, thats a shame as USB burners are fantastic, anytime I
want to burn something, I pull the burner out of the cuboard, plug it into
the notebook and start burning, no setup, no restart and no coasters....
anyway, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
kindest regards
Frank
Frank Hauptle
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