Re: [tlug] wiki

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 11/18/06, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> >> USB 2.0 *is* on Linux and has been for ages, at least since the mid
> >> 2.4.x kernels - 2.4.18 sounds about right. However, the feasability of
> >> the switchover depends on what you want to connect to a USB 2.0 port.
> >>
> > I would be running an external hard drive.  It is a "external mount"
> > that you stick any-old EIDE drive into and then plug into USB.
>
> I've tried one of those things that is little more than a cable with USB
> plug on one end, IDE plug on the other. It worked on Windows but was
> very unreliable on linux (from memory it was going very slowly - maybe
> it had detected as a USB 1 device?). That was 9-12 months ago (so a
> 2.6.x kernel) and I've not tried it since.
>
> Darren

Hello,

I have been, and still do, use external HDD via USB without issue for
several years now.

Check the outpu of /var/log/messages tosee if it has been detected as
a USB 1 or 2 device/ For example:

usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5


Regards, Keith