External USB HD

[Hüseyin Kaya]

Hello list

I want to buy an external USB Hard Disk (40GB or 80GB).
I'm using 8.0 with kernel  2.4.18-14.

Do you have any suggestions for vendor, model etc?

Here is the output from dmesg.

$ dmesg | grep -i usb
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0849000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd084b000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.1, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd084d000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#3)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 1. 0
hub.c: USB hub found
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers


Huseyin Kaya
Bilisim Enstitusu, ITU
http://www.be.itu.edu.tr/~hkaya