[ltp] Western Digital USB 2.0 Drive

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:23:49PM -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> Listers:
> 
> I picked up a WDC USB 2.0 external drive and would like to use it as a 
> backup device.  Anyone have one of these working with RH 8.0 
> (2.4.20-20.8)?  If so, could you please pass along any tips.

On a usb1 connection you can expect the computer to hang when you copy
a lot of stuff to the hard disk - especially large files like iso's.

I am using rsync to do that with a bandwidth limit - which helps most
of the time.

I am considering getting a usb2-pcmcia-card.

Regards
Johann
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