Re: [PLUG] USB hard drive size limit?

[McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>]

hidesert@cox.net wrote:

> > From: McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>
> >
> > Hmm I think I will share my experience with you. I have a USB HDD enclosure that has 60 GB disk in it. I have two PC's. One that is a PIV-2.8Ghz, 846 and another is i810, PIII-500Mbps. I use the USB enclosure to store DV captured files that are in the tune of GBs. On Win* there is no option but you hafta make sure the file size remains below 4GB mark. On ext3 there is no such problem. However the biggest problem that I have faced is the file transfer. On a PIV a file transfer of size 3GB takes less than 5 mins, but the same on PIII( USB 1.1) will take around 35 min. I tried putting PCI USB 2.0 card in i810 but of no use ( may be the problem with chipset ALi).
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> Are you sneaker-netting btwn Win* and *NIX; is there software to read ext3 on Win* or something? If going btwn OSes what is the recomended format for large drives, FAT32, NTFS ?
Yeah there is a software on Win32 to read ext3 fs ( however read only). 
Umm since I would like to have read write option both I have kept 3/4 th 
of disk as vfat and 1/4 as ext3 fs. This way I can use rsync and linux 
wont complain about permissions. As u know NTFS right now is read only, 
hence I choose VFAT.

Thanks
-McLinux

Yes the link: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/



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