usb to ide cable (was: [Nottingham] Installfest Proposal)

[.waffle]

Right, I've not tried it in linux yet with an HDD. CD drive wise (using
Debian) I just recompiled the kernel adding in support for USB Mass Storage
Support. I then ran mount /dev/usb0 /mnt/usb0 -t auto and it worked. Forgive
me if it wasn't /dev/usb0 but I don't have access to the machine - it's 2
miles down the road and I won't ahve access until Monday. I'll bive you a
better answer then.

.waffle

Martin Garton <martin@wrasse.demon.co.uk> wrote:
| On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, .waffle wrote:
|
|| I've been waiting weeks, WEEKS I tell you. 3 (yes, that's right,
|| three) were delivered on Wednesday (stock code A25AT). They're 29.99
|| and they're probably sold out by now.
|
| Well, I managed to get one today from maplin (that last one I think!)
| Have you managed to use it with linux though? I haven't got it working
| yet. It sees the device as usb mass storage (as was expected) but
| gets i/o errors when trying to read, so I can't mount, fdisk or
| anything. I've even tried dd'ing randomly selected bits of the disc
| and it doesn't work :(
|
| I tried a dvdrom instead and had the same problem. This time though
| the
| drive didn't even spin up, and eventually I got a kernel panic. (I
| plan to reproduce when not in X so I can see why)
| This is all with redhat 8.0 + latest errata kernel.
|
| I tried on my work laptop which also has WinXP on and it worked fine.
|
| If you have had more success, would you mind telling me which distro
| and kernel version did you use?