[clug] USB Disk support under Woody

Stephen Jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Oct 28 07:10:42 GMT 2004


Debian Kernel 2.4.26+ works well with USB & supports hotplug.
Think you can upgrade the kernel without forcing everything 'up'.

[Could Someone Who Really Knows, please confirm/deny this suppostition]

sj

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Stephen Hodgman wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am trying to get a woody system to recognize a usb connected IDE hard 
> disk.  Currently when I plug it in nothing happens.  The unit is 
> recognized on a Fedora system though so it is working.
> 
> Can somebody please let me in on the secret knowledge or point me to 
> where I can gain the info required to get the setup correct for this on 
> my Debian system?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
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