Re: USB 2.0 Drive Reliability/Stability?
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:54, Kirchner, Patrick wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious about people's success and opinions on the general
> reliability and stability of USB hard drives/CD burners/DVD drives on
> Debian with the 2.6 kernel.
>
> I'm having continuous problems using any app with any external USB 2.0
> hard drive/CD burner/DVD drive. For example, dvdbackup, abcde,
> acidrip, ogle, etc. all start to read the fine but lock up in the end,
> an external HD will be accessible for a while but end up reverting to
> a read-only file system and has to be remounted for write access.
> Maybe it's my USB hub or ports that are causing the problem?
>
> At this point, I'm just wondering if the problem is maybe with me and
> my computer or if others have also had continuous bad luck using
> external USB 2.0 burners/DVD's/hard drives with Debian and the 2.6
> kernel?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Patrick.
>
no problems with 2.6.7 and a USB 2 hard drive used for backups. hth
peter
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