On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I'm thinking of purchasing a "Conceptronic External USB 2.0 Hard Disk > > Box 3.5 (CHD3U)", together with a IDE hd, to use mostly for backups. > > Anyone has any experience with this? The main question is: Should I > > worry about drivers? > > Every USB (2.0) disk/stick is covered by the USB mass-storage driver. You'll Great! > need: > CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD (USB 2.0) > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE (mass-storage) > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI-disk) > Does the latter mean that some scsi emulation is used? Is there some documentation about it that I should know of? > After connecting the disk, check dmesg to see which device has been created. > Most probably it's /dev/sda, if you don't have any other SCSI/USB disks. > Thanks.
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