In my experience, I booted with the USB drive
connected, and it appears as /dev/sda.  Also, the data
transfer rate is about 2 MB/sec - much less than
today's hard drives.  It may work for gaming, but I
would not count on it.

JD


--- Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently bought an external HDD that hates my
> computer (won't work at all
> inside the computer, but plays nice from the
> enclosure). I want to know a
> couple of things:
> 
> 1.) Is the USB spec fast enough to run any games or
> other applications from
> it?
> 2.) Can anyone help me set up a UDEV rule so that
> this device gets a
> symbolic link in /dev as /dev/media-external or
> something? I can't get it to
> consistently have the same letter short of plugging
> it in in a certain
> order, so I'd like to have a more dynamic solution.
> Right now I have
> /usr/media (directory I chose to mount the thing
> in--it holds non-OS related
> media, like HDD images, videos, music, games, etc)
> existing as a symbolic
> link to /media/media-external, and KDE's media
> manager working some kind of
> hoodoo-voodoo KDE magic to automount it there (KDE
> can only automount things
> in /media). So, again: can anyone help me set up a
> udev rule for that
> device? I did one for my iPod as according to the
> Gentoo wiki, but that was
> basically a cut and paste job (that rule included
> information like vendor,
> etc., which was obvious for the iPod, but not as
> obvious for this hard
> drive. I don't know where the Gentoo people pulled
> it from).
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --Patrick C.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Amarok: Rediscover your music.
> -- http://amarok.kde.org
> 
> Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge.
> -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org
> >
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