I got ~25MB/s doing file transfers on it, so 2M/s is definitely not right... and mounting it by label is definitely the way to go (duh!). Thanks! On 10/1/07, Matt Graham wrote: > > 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 > -- Amarok: Rediscover your music. -- http://amarok.kde.org Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org