Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.
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RHEL 6 - how to mount a USB disk after umount it and make it appear in Desktop?
We have implemented a solution to use a USB disk before the system mount it.
To do that we have a rule 89-mount_usb in /etc/udev/rules.d that calls a script (mountUSB.sh).
This script send a message ...
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1answer
26 views
USB device not going through VM?
I have a server (we'll call it Server01, Win2008R2) that has a Virtual Environment (also a Win 2008R2 Environment) ran through Hyper-V.
I have a program on the VM that needs an USB Device (it's ...
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0answers
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cp to EXT4 through USB cable [closed]
I was backing up my main EXT4 hard drive to another EXT4 hard drive using a USB cable. When the cp command finished, I forgot to unmount the USB drive, and unplugged the USB cable. There was an error ...
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1answer
28 views
How to perform remote backups on a USB external drive?
I have a server hosting files (~300 Gb) and I need to perform a full backup every week on an exernal USB drive. People without good IT knowledge need to be able to do it too, so it has to be a very ...
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1answer
32 views
Connecting a usb external drive in NFS to a different server [closed]
I have two unix CentOS servers in the same farm. One of them has an usb HD connected. I would like to access the same usb HD from the second server (I want to be able to write directly to that HD). ...
0
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0answers
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HART sensor signal conditioner [closed]
Looking for signal conditioner to allow me to connect multiple HART compliant sensors, and output on ethernet or RS232. Looked at Vegascan 693, but price and availability in Canada is a little steep. ...
0
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0answers
40 views
Change USB device owner
I have a USB printer that when I connect to the computer it's owned by the user root and the group lp, and it's file permission is rw-rw----, so I have to print via apache/php script. To solve this ...
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1answer
84 views
ProLiant ML110 G7 Access Bios with USB Control Disable
I have a server ProLiant ML110 G7, and need to access the bios on it. The problem is the USB ports are disabled. How can I access it?
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FreeNAS: Properly eject/unmount USB drive
What is the recommended way for removing external disks in FreeNAS 8?
I use an external drive to create an offline backup via rsync using the CLI.
Attaching a USB drive to a FreeNAS 8 server makes ...
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1answer
50 views
USB-drive goes to “sleep”
We have a temporary training envirnoment consisting of two identical (bar the names) 2003 domains. Second server in each domain is the handling the backup with Symantec BackupExec 2010. We are using ...
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1answer
83 views
How to enable USB access blocked using group policy [closed]
My USB Access is blocked using Group Policy.
How can I enable it? I am using Windows XP professional 2002
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1answer
47 views
How can I monitor if an external USB drive gets disconneted from a server?
I have a few servers that rely on external USB drives for some of their backup scripts. However, there have been times when the USB drive might get disconnected accidentally (upon reboot or power ...
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Group Policy Preference not applied automatically
DC - Windows Server 2008 R2
Client OS - Window XP
I have applied USB block Group Policy Preference setting for Window XP ( i.e Registry setting & usbstor.inf, usbstor.pnf denied policy ).
But ...
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1answer
86 views
assign a USB to KVM virtual machine centos 5.8
can any one advice how to assign a USB to a guest based on KVM and host is centos 5.8 64-bit ?
when i tried with gui using virt-manager -> add physical device-> usb i got all usb like null
despite ...
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0answers
95 views
Ubuntu USB device disconnecting and reconnecting
I have a USB device that I am trying to communicate with via /dev/ttyUSB0. I have installed the usbserial kernel module using insmod. I have a Fedora Core 13 box that when I plug the device in, ...
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1answer
115 views
Kickstart Installation from USB
My goal is to install Oracle Linux 6.3 from USB. My problem is when I copy DVD media to USB. The symlink file repodata is unable to create because the file system is FAT/FAT32. Below is the symlink ...
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1answer
535 views
How can I setup PCI passthrough for my HighPoint 1144A USB 3.0 card under ESXi 5.1?
I have an Apple Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) with a HighPoint RocketU 1144A USB 3.0 PCI-express card installed. Given that VMware ESXi 5.1 doesn't support USB 3.0 for ...
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4answers
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Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian [closed]
How do I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian?
The USB Stick is working on other computers.
I have used dmesg which returned useful information about the USB Stick. It is attached to /dev/sdc.
...
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2answers
729 views
Snapshot copy a VM to USB attached to ESXi 5.1 host
I was trying to script a snapshot backup of running VMs to a USB drive attached to the host. We are using the free hypervisor version of ESXi and do not want to purchase 3rd party products to do this.
...
3
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2answers
765 views
Fixing USB disk mount point in Fedora 18
I use Bacula for my backups, with data spooled to one of two USB drives (the other is stored off site, and they get swapped occasionally). Currently these drives are labelled BACKUP5 and BACKUP6.
...
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0answers
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Where can I find USB flash chip P/E statistics?
We have begun using USB flash drives as backup of remote users' file. Yes, I'm aware of better options but it wasn't my decision. The task at hand is to find some way of comparing the useful life of ...
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1answer
62 views
rsync from linux host to fat32
i like to backup my linux based NAS (small files like picutres) to an attached USB Disk with FAT32.
For this i like to use rsync.
I know, that this will not work correct per default. rsync will sync ...
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0answers
118 views
Automatically Start PPP USB Modem
I have a Verizon USB 3G modem that I want the connection to automatically start with on boot. In my Debian based system in /etc/network/interfaces I have the following:
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
...
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1answer
502 views
Copying Windows 7 installer to USB gives error on install.wim [closed]
I followed the instructions here Boot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive to copy the windows file from CD/DVD to USB. But after running this command in the command line: robocopy.exe F:\ G:\ ...
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1answer
61 views
USB access from switch
Currently, I have a network setup that kind of duct-taped together. I have
A.) The wireless DSL modem with four ethernet ports and a USB 2.0 port
B.) The wireless router with four ethernet ports and ...
1
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1answer
407 views
How to mount USB on ESXi 4.1?
This is what I tried but it doesn't work :
Connect with SSH
# /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop
# fdisk -l |grep Disk
Disk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba40:C0:T0:L0: 4022 MB, 4022337024 bytes
# ls ...
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KVM USB Passthrough and Zydas usb wireless adapter: device or resource busy
i'm tring to setup a kernel testing virtualmachine for a 80211 module.
i start my machine with this command:
kvm -m 512 -net nic -net vde -usb -usbdevice host:0ace:1215 ktesting.img
i set up a ...
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2answers
183 views
Configure the UPS apcupsd demon to run a script?
I have a ups connected to a Linux server with a usb cable, i installed apcupsd demon and i was wondering how to instruct it to run a shell script i created when a special condition occurs?
i.e. the ...
6
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2answers
254 views
CentOS /dev/bus/usb structure
On my Ubuntu 12.04 when I plug in usb device, under dev directory tree usb device is added like this:
/dev/bus/usb/001/001
On my CentOS 5 added like below:
/dev/bus/usb/devices/2-1.4/
lsusb ...
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0answers
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usb_modeswitch not switching
After I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18 to 3.5.3 modeswitch started not to work for me. Although lsusb shows my usb modem, usb_modeswitch does not switch it. My system information is like below. I ran ...
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2answers
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Does disabling a USB port stop power from being provided on pins 1/4?
This is hopefully a simple question. When you disable a USB port at the BIOS level, or if it is disabled by group policy/at the OS level, does it still provide the +5VDC power on pin 1? I ask because ...
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2answers
219 views
Configuring Backup Exec 2012 using USB hard drives as media
I have found some information on this but have not found the exact answers to these questions.
Background
I have installed backup exec 2012 (with agents for databases)
I have configured a storage ...
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0answers
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Live USB to load small app to see system specs
I have a bunch of servers in storage. But i dont know the specs for each one. Most of which dont have hard drives. I want to load a small app, to scan and tell me the specs of the comp. CPU, Chipset, ...
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0answers
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Asus RT-N66U forgets USB-Printer
about a week ago I bought the new Asus RT-N66U as the new Router in our
little company. There are about 5 clients and 2 printers. There's a USB-only printer as well,
therefor we bougth a router with ...
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1answer
119 views
WinXP How to Tunnel LPT over USB [closed]
I have a windows program that accesses a device connected to a LPT (1-3) 25 pin port. The communication is bidirectional, and I suspected the control lines are also accessed directly.
I would like ...
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1answer
74 views
udev only reports events for a USB device configuration, not for the USB device itself
I'm trying to execute a certain Python script on USB devices insertion. I need to handle all kinds of USB devices. I'm using a rule like this:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ...
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external drive and CentOS - Reset high speed USB device number
I have 2 external drives (3TB) and both will not work with my centOS Box. Tested them in windows ( different machine ) No problems ( 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686 )
dmesg reports:
usb 2-2: new high speed ...
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0answers
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Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - Boot Error from USB
I'm new to hosting, and I got my first server a couple of days ago, and am having troubles.
I'm trying to boot Ubuntu Server 12.04 from a USB Device I have, and when I attempt to boot, I get "Boot ...
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1answer
932 views
Create a bootable USB ISO stick without formatting the stick [closed]
I know that there is a lot of software and even in Windows or Linux you can just use commands to do it, but all these alternatives needs to FORMAT the usb stick.
What I'm looking for is some ...
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1answer
78 views
How to make a bootable USB out of my VPS?
I copied a backup of my entire VPS (Debian on OpenVZ) on a USB drive, and want to boot from this USB to test something on my server (in fact its duplicate). However, there is no nothing in the boot ...
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0answers
345 views
Multiboot USB (OSX only): How to customize partition name? [closed]
Trying to deal with all the Mac OSX recovery disks I've got by moving them to bootable USB images. I've got a big USB drive with multiple partitions for each recovery disk, and it's easy to use Disk ...
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0answers
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USB Redirection to thin clients
I'm experiencing a problem with a client situation. We switched a user of theirs to a thin client (specifically, with a WYSE C10LE). The thin client connects to a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual ...
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3answers
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Install Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
According to Intel and Dell, by board is technically a 'desktop' board and they therefore do not support Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller drivers for Windows Server 2008 (R2 x64). I'm trying ...
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1answer
762 views
Does a RAID 1 really protect from HDD failure?
If using a RAID 1 and if there are any inconsistencies between both disks found, data is copied from the primary disk (most likely the one with the lower port number) to the secondary disk.
1) But ...
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0answers
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How can I manually define a USB Device in linux? [closed]
My real goal is to test my implementation of some parts of the USB protocol. Basically, I want to get a second opinion from another program that I've generated the correct descriptors. If I can ...
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1answer
113 views
strange usb file system corruption
We have a few X7DBT Supermicro motherboards that is using a Kingston DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive as a boot drive. The customer had 10 systems and they say that the site had a power failure. Once ...
2
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1answer
5k views
How to get USB Devices to AutoMount in Ubuntu 12.04 Server
In Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop, USB devices can be plugged in, and they just work for the most part.
In Ubuntu 12.04 Server, when I plug in a USB device it does nothing.
How can I setup server do act like ...
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0answers
300 views
Trying to make USB-to-Ethernet adapter work on CentOS 5
I have a SR9600 USB-to-Ethernet adapter and, when plugging it on a Dell server running CentOS 5, the lsusb listing doesn't even change -- nothing at all appears in dmesg. But the USB port on that ...
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1answer
717 views
How to limit usb 2.0 port to work as usb 1.1 in ubuntu?
Ive got problem with kvm usb forwarding and printing (windows xp guest goes BSOD when i try to print something). Ive been adviced to change usb to 1.1 version. That only kvm works with 1.1 not 2.0 ...
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1answer
123 views
Adding removable disk to PATH when inserted on Windows
As part of a network engineering team, one of the common problems we have is lack of access to CLI tools when we are diagnosing various windows machines
PortQry.exe (not default install on Win2003)
...
