I'm looking at one for eSATA anyway. I don't want a network
one.
Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com systems
administrator Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006
From: Ronnie Gilkey [mailto:rgilkey AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:12 PM To: Chris Baker;
backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users]
Western Digital Mybook drives
Chris,
I have used them before -- just once. They do
work with Linux, however you'll have to jump through some hoops. First
you'll have to do a firmware update to allow SSH. Then you'll have to
enable NFS or you can use the default CIFS if you like. More importantly
to me, some of them only have small CPUs (the one I had was an ARM-9) and only
have ~ 384 MB of RAM. The network card could only support about 150K/s --
backups took a long time.
Overall I wouldn't recommend using it for
BackupPC or any backup system really; but if you do here's a link to a site with
a lot of modification info and instructions for getting into the host
OS:
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