Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-21 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 21 January 2008 03:05:38 David S, vous avez écrit : Gilles Mocellin wrote: Argh ! My freeagent just died in two weeks. Permanent bus reset, and finally, I/O errors and no more access to the disk. I'm not the only one. Theses FreeAgent seems really fragile. I've also had issues

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 20 January 2008 19:24:44 Andrew M.A. Cater, vous avez écrit : On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote: From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers. Anyone used this stuff with Debian? Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it,

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote: From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers. Anyone used this stuff with Debian? Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it, some for compressed backups, i.e. squashfs or images, some for regular

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread michael
On 20 Jan 2008, at 18:45, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Sunday 20 January 2008 19:24:44 Andrew M.A. Cater, vous avez écrit : On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote: From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers. Anyone used this stuff with Debian?

Re: One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-20 Thread David S
Gilles Mocellin wrote: Argh ! My freeagent just died in two weeks. Permanent bus reset, and finally, I/O errors and no more access to the disk. I'm not the only one. Theses FreeAgent seems really fragile. I've also had issues with external hard drives, however they were internal hard drive

One Button Backup--USB External HD

2008-01-19 Thread David Baron
From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers. Anyone used this stuff with Debian? Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it, some for compressed backups, i.e. squashfs or images, some for regular storage? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a