[ale] ( Hardware ) External drive dream = HD + CDRW

[Christopher Fowler]

The one thing that had caused me problems 3 years ago doing this, was
unplugging and plugging in the CD-ROM on the fly.  If you had the CD
mounted in Linux, it really caused a few issues.  For HDD's I would
assume similar issues even under Windows XP.  


On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:11:33AM -0400, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> I just wonder, that are the pros and cons of getting the external firewire
> case ( should it be firewire or smth else?) with big & fat HD and to attach
> this to Linux laptop via usb 1 ( don't think my old compaq armada m700 has
> usb2 ) to enjoy additional 40-120 GB %) of space ( i have built-in 10 Gb,
> and it's a little bit tight ;) ). 
> 
> NOTE: I tied to use USB powered scanner ( well with Win2000 ) and it (
> scanner ) refused to work. So the question is how to make sure that this
> combo will work without additional power source?
> 
> I can see the upcoming question: Why not to get internal 80Gb ? i think it
> will be like 3X more expensive and for my small testing needs i don't want
> to go crazy.
> 
> The original idea is to have HD and CDRW as external ( cost, cost and cost
> again ) drives + plus stay below ~$140 ( after rebates hopefully ).
> 
> My main concern - how slow/bad this "construction" might be. And how
> "happy/unhappy" Linux ( RH8 particularly ) is about using it ?
> 
> "Happy/unhappy" := easy, free of bugs, supported by applications such as cd
> writer etc.
> 
> So if you please share your thoughts/experience on this, that will be just
> great.
> 
> P.S. Well, just read it over and became more voracious - how about adding to
> this combo DVD RW (or how do they call all this myriad of standards now.) ?
> 
> 
> Thank You
>  Andy
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