usb: disable

[Joel Hammer]

This sounds great. I asked a while back about increasing the number of
ide drives, but I didn't get much encouragement from the list. I will
have to look into this.

Thanks,
Joel

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:28:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:57:31PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >Does this work with linux?
> 
> Didn't I say I was using it with Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0?  Last I looked that
> qualifies as Linux :-).
> 
> Under Mandrake 9.0, the appropriate ieee1394 modules are loaded
> automatically including spb2 which is needed for the automatic device
> selection.  In fact, the mdk9.9 installation routines found the FireWire
> disk before it found the SCSI hard drive, assigning it as /dev/sda which
> wasn't exactly what I had in mind.  I turned the drive off during
> installation, then after everything was installed and booted normally, I
> turned the drive back on, and mounted it.  I haven't tried rebooting the
> system with the external drive on.
> 
> >Joel
> >> > 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.
> >>