After a long battle with technology, Jorge Delacruz wrote: > --- Patrick C 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). > > 1.) Is the USB spec fast enough to run any games or other applications > > from it? Reports from the field say that USB2 disks run at about 20-25M/s under real-world conditions. This isn't as fast as IDE or SATA, but it should be fast enough for most things. > > 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? Overkill. Put a label of some type on the device and mount by label if it's a removable device. This is easy with ntfslabel, tune2fs, or reiserfstune. If it's FAT, echo -n "NEW_VOLUME1" | dd of=/dev/sdX1 bs=1 seek=43 count=11 . > > KDE's media manager working some kind of hoodoo-voodoo KDE magic to > > automount it there (KDE can only automount things in /media). Automounters tend to cause more problems than they solve. Put the thing in fstab and forget about it. > > 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) They probably used the /lib/udev/usb_id program to find that stuff out. > 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. 2M/s? That doesn't sound right for either USB1 or USB2. -- You don't change the way people think by changing what they say. You change the way people think with HEADLESS CHARRED BODIES FLYING THROUGH THE AIR! BLOOD! FLAMES! --Alastair J. R. Young There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss