[CALUG] trouble mounting usb cdrw

[Russ]

Bernie/Calug,

Once again, thanks for the help, and I appreciate the valuable input.  You
asked why I wanted to burn to an optical drive instead of using
cpio/rdist.  Well... for a few reasons. I'm a newbie.  I have never used
cpio/rdist.  I dont have the newer machine yet. I wanted a portable backup
copy.  The machine that I want the files off of does not have an
ethernet card.  Only last week did I figure out how to mount the floppy
and the internal cdrom to the file system.  Also, since I'm fairly new
and, I think Linux is very cool, I thought making it work would be a
nice challenge for me.   It has become a bit exhaustive though. One of 
my thoughts during this challange was to buy and ethernet card and copy
across my own network.  Being a newbie, I figured setting up the ethernet
card would be a challenge for me, so I focused on the USB CDRW.  Anyway, 
after my longwinded answer, my goal is to copy the home directory
off of the older machine.  So, any ideas or enlightenment are very much
appreciated.

thanks

Russ  


     


thanks Russ
  
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Bernard Karmilowicz wrote:

> [Russ wrote] Does support exist for IDE CDRW drives (i.e., should I just 
> install an internal cdrw and be done with it)?
> 
> I'd go with an internal ATA DVD/CD RW drive since doing so is cheaper 
> ($30) than spending hours downloading patches, reading README.build, 
> README.install, README.configure, ... files, building, installing, 
> configuring, and possibly debugging/tuning the SCSI/USB subsystem for 
> your particular USB-interfaced CD-R drive. Also, burning CDs over a USB 
> interface is painfully slow. USB was designed for human (rather than 
> machine) data input rates.
> 
> A quick search turned up many budget drives, such as:
> 
> http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200765&Ns=display%5Fprice%7C0&product_code=333658
> http://www.mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=151
> 
> [Russ wrote] This particular machine (PII 166MHZ 64M RAM) was my first 
> attempt at using/installing Linux. I would like to copy a couple gigs of 
> files off of this system, and install Linux and the couple gigs of files 
> on a newer system.
> 
> Out of curiosity only; Why did you decide to burn the data to optical 
> media instead of using a network-aware file copy utility (such as rdist 
> or cpio) to transfer the files from the PII Linux box to your newer 
> machine? Off-site backup?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> - Bernie
> 
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