Turns out you can just plug an HFS+ formatted drive into the server and it will recognize it. That's with CentOS 4.2 on the standard 2.6 kernel. I wouldn't have thought that would work. I should always remember to try the easy way first. You know, just in case.

Anyway, transferring 100 GBs over USB is not so much fun. Not sure if it's USB 1 or 2. Might have to sleep with the amazingly loud server fans on tonight which will be interesting to say the least.

But it does feel good to be loading it up at last.
- jim 11-17-2005 12:35 am

Looks like I'm getting about 8 mb/sec. That will be 27 hours for the whole 100 GB I think. Still, it was going to take over 100 hours using wireless so this is much better.
- jim 11-17-2005 1:18 am


ADAT? Firewire? SP/DIF? Listen to me, I'm an audio expert now.
- tom moody 11-17-2005 1:36 am


For reasons I don't understand, USB 2 is rare in servers. I guess they assume that people are going to do drive swaps or network backups rather than USB backups.

If USB transfers are going to be a common thing, you might consider using a PCI slot for a USB 2 card.

- mark 11-17-2005 3:01 am





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