Subject: Re: external drives
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 14:31:20 MST
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, John Klinck wrote:
> The question about formatting drives, brings up the question of YDL
> compatable external drive hardware which I have not been able to find.
>
> I have a G4 TiBook. YDL 2.0 (dual boot macos9.1), with which I am
> very happy (Thanks, Dan).
>
> Can I get a pci scsi card and connect external scsi drives?
>
> Can I get usb drives and mount them on YDL?
>
> Are firewire devices still not recognized by YDL?
>
> Can any of the small portable hard disks be mounted under YDL?
I would think at least some of those would work. There are drivers for
various things (USB, Firewire) in the x86 kernel tree. Now weather or not
they work in the ppc tree is a whole different story.
>
> I can use these drives as a way to move files between the macos and YDL
> partitions and for offline storage and backup.
>
What I like to do is have a small (say 1-2 Gig) partition that's formatted
HFS (not HFS+) that I can mount from linux. Works fine, so long as you
don't need anything on the HFS+ drives.
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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