[ale] NAS

[thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:45 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>> One thing to be sure of is to run fsck every now and then.  If you 
>> don't, you could well have problems.  I've never had any problems
>> with 
>> usb disks.  I've got two right now 200G and 300G sitting on my main
>> box.
> 
> You know how long it takes to to fsck a 120gb partition on usb 1.1?
> On 2.0 I keep getting error messages "refusing I/O to dead device".
> If I dropped it to 1.1 it would work but be too slow to be usable.

There seem to be quite a large number of USB enclosures with really
awful chipsets that don't quite meet the usb-mass-storage specifications.

My girlfriend has a really crappy enclosure, craptactular enough that it
uses an oddball cable with 2 host ends (good way to fry USB ports :p).
I had to tweak a usb header file in the kernel that contains workarounds
for different mass-storage chipsets.  There are A LOT of chipsets in
there that need workarounds.

Pat
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