usb external drive

[Eddie Bindt]

CUOn Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Thomas wrote:

> Hi Greg
> 
> I am either wondering. why they cut the kernel from 2.3 to 3.0 only 
> working with new machines and several special devices.

I must totally disagree with this. I am running YDL since 1.* and the 3.0 
release is the best ever. It runs and installed without problems on all 
the machines I have. In fact, the newest machine I have is a G3 iBook1 ...
On my AWS9650 and my AWS9650SMP I run stock YDL kernels, with the original 
scsi drivers loaded from initrd. No problem what so ever.
Oldworld machines might be a little less documented, but, if you know what 
you are doing, it works great.
And yes, I also use an external USB disk, it is automaticly detected and 
mounted by the stock kernel.
So stop blaming YDL, they do a great job.
Some types of hardware are not supported very well, but that is not YDL's 
fault, YDL3 supports more hardware than any other release. 


> ---maybe they have been too lazy to configure it for older machines too
Bull... Even on my ANS it works great.
 
> So they left a lot of problems on the users side,... - recompiling the 
> kernel will do fine to solve it...
No need for, just configure your initrd and your modules the right way..
 
> And they did not tell us really why....
Nobody asked ...
 
> There are a lot of folks in this list that do not understand why they 
> did do it that way...
 
> Thomas

Eddie