Re: [SLUG] hard drive enclosures and firewire?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 17:04:16 EDT


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Chris Mathey wrote:

> William Coulter wrote:
>>
>> --- "Ian C. Blenke" <icblenke@nks.net> wrote:
>>
>>> William Coulter wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am looking into buying a hard drive enclosure that is firewire. Has
>>>> anyone used or know anyone has used this enclosure before? What about
>>>> this firewire card as well?
>>>
>>> You really shouldn't have a problem.
>>>
>>> If you're trying to do something crazy like share one Firewire enclosure
>>> between 4 systems with a filesystem like GFS or OCFS2, you'll want an
>>> enclosure that supports "logins", like the Oxford 911 chipset. But that's
>>> something well beyond what you're probably looking for.

>> Thanks for the info. I will get to it later today.

> FWIW, I run Suse 10.1 and when I plugged in a USB 2.0 external enclosure it
> auto mounted it under /media. I thought that was a nice feature.

I have a usb drive, and it might appear as hda or hde or hdf, depending
on whether it was on when the computer was booted, or whether I've
power-cycled it in that boot. Can an automounter recognize the _type_ of
drive, independent of its device?

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