usb: disable

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:02:49PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
...
>Yea, IEEE1394 hardware is still quite pricy.  Its not being marketed as 
>well as USB, and AFAIK, only Macs, and some laptops come standard with a 
>firewire port.

When was the last time you looked at FireWire pricing?  I bought an Adaptec
FireConnect 4300 PCI card at CompUSA about a month ago for about $50US, an
external ADS chassis for $99.95, and a Maxtor 120GB IDE drive for it for
another $99.95.  I bought an external 120GB LaCie drive about six months
ago at an Apple store for $350.00US.

This didn't work at all on Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation even after I built a
2.4.20 kernel for it.  I've used it successfully with Mandrake 8.2 and
Mandrake 9.0 (the install tried to install the OS on it since it scanned it
before it found the SCSI hard drive so I had to turn off the external drive
during the installation).  I'm in the process of copying then entire
Mandrake 9.0 system over to the external drive now before I start hacking
on it.

BTW:  When I was in CompUSA last week, they had external drive chassis that
support both USB 2.0 and ieee1394 (not at the same time).  This looks to be
very useful for backing up a variety of systems.

Bill
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