[vox-tech] usb woes

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:45:36 -0800


turns out that USB hard drives are accessed via scsi device files.
never knew that.  well, supposedly they do.  someone had one at the IF
today, but we never did get it working...

pete


begin Erik Mullinix <Hesp@rainworks.org> 
> Im so used to suse.
> It allows me to check on devices like windows.. only it works.
> 
> Disreguard my babble please As im trying to find the info i had to back it
> up and it isnt getting found.  I was using an olderversion/kernal. And
> wonder if this version has changed anything.
> 
> ;-(
> Im not a programmer. so please excuse me when I dont do things like you.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] usb woes
> 
> 
> > begin Erik Mullinix <Hesp@rainworks.org>
> > > When I went through the device management for my mouse
> > > (usb) and tried my scanner. it was coming up under the scsi device list.
> but
> > > unnaccessable innicialy.Did you know suse has a nice scanner utility ?
> >
> > device management?   what's device management?  are we talking about
> > windows or linux?
> >
> > there appears to be no evidence that the kernel is mis-managing the
> > devices.  at least, none that i can see.  maybe this is a windows (or
> > suse) thing?  i dunno.  it's just hard to believe the linux would
> > misregister hardware.  especially hardware plugged into completely
> > different ports.
> >
> > > and I dont have it overclocked. I think there is a problem with the
> chipset
> > > controls for the pci buss.
> >
> > wierd.  did you know that there were bad problems of people selling over
> > rated celeron chips?   apic errors are very rare.  except when a CPU is
> > run at a speed faster than its rating.
> >
> > i forget the details, but there are websites out there that can tell you
> > if you have a mislabelled celeron.  even fox news ran a story on this
> > about 3 years ago.
> >
> > pete
> >
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