Questions tagged [usb]
Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.
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Linux: USB device power management
I have a USB Hard Drive
In Windows, i used to click the "Safely remove" icon, and the hdd stopped spinning and was unmounted.
Now, in Linux, unmounting doesn't poweroff the device, and it proceeds ...
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SpinRite and USB blues - does a solution exist?
I use SpinRite to recover hard disks and their content, and to a lesser degree for preventive maintenance.
However, if a USB drive (USB thumb drive and/or external hard disk with a USB interface) is ...
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Force the unloading of a kernel module when the USB devices is unplugged?
I'm using a MultiTech GPRS modem on Ubuntu 8.0.4 (2.6.24-24 kernel with the MultiTech patches to the ti_usb_3410_5052 module).
The device works great. However if I disconnect it and then reconnect ...
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Map Floppy A drive to USB
I need a way to assign my windows A: drive to a usb. In fact multiple usb's keys and always the standard windows floppy drive A:. It doesn't need to be bootable...
Yes I know that I can set the drive ...
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How to register a new usb network-adapter in os x (leopard)? [duplicate]
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OS X will not register newly installed network adapters
I've recently purchased an Edimax 7318usg usb network adapter. I installed the "drivers" for this device and upon ...
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Rsyncing to a USB drive failing every now and again
I have been using rsync over ssh (cygwin) for some time now from a Windows 2003 Server to back up files to a Debian box which has a USB hard drive attached.
The files are rsynced directly to the USB ...
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Usb automount in linux box
When a usbdisk is connected to a linux box, A folder with usb label is created in /media and mounted. how is it done & how it works in backend. can anyone please explain.
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What infomation can be had about a USB device that I don't have drivers for?
I have a USB device (USB to RS-232) that works on some computers without drivers but not on others. This is a problem because I don't have the drivers disk for it nor any info on who made it.
Are ...
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USB drive changes name from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdc (and back again) when copying?
I have a usb drive mounted to a folder in an Ubuntu 9.04 server installation. The mount options are stored in /etc/fstab for easy mounting/dismounting:
# <file system> <mount point> <...
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Fixing permissions on a FAT32 USB-attached hard drive under Vista
There are many times you want to use a USB hard drive to move files between, for exmaple, Vista, XP, Unix, and MacOS. A drive is formatted with FAT32. Files are added and removed under MacOS and XP ...
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Does the VMWare Server 2.0 BIOS support USB?
I have a VMWare Server 2.0 installation. I have a USB hard drive plugged into the host and the USB device attached to a VM. I would like to be able to boot from one of the partitions on my USB drive....
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Enable/disable USB devices on Windows using Active Directory on certain users
I have been asked to disable access to USB devices on Windows machines for information disclosure reasons.
Although this can be done with Active Directory, the problem is that the solution should let ...
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How can I convert a USB printer to LPT?
I have an Java enterprise app that only prints to LPT1. The problem is, the only printers available in my company are USB printers. The developers and support staff (InfoSys) for the app all say they ...
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USB forwarding from dom0 to domU
What are my options to forward two USB connected phones to xen guest?
I've read about PCI-passthrough http://www.wlug.org.nz/XenPciPassthrough, but I'm sure usb controller in the server isn't a pci ...
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Does this device exist - an external drive enclosure that takes multiple 3.5" drives?
We've all seen the external drive cases that take a 3.5" drive and present it as a USB, eSATA or firewire device. I'm looking for the same sort of thing, but I want the case to take multiple drives (...
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Sharing a Folder on a USB Drive
I've been running a 5-drive software RAID under Windows 2003 Server. When it fails, it causes really strange problems that are difficult to deduce. After the third occurrence, I've decided to try ...
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rackmount network USB hubs? [closed]
We are virtualizing our license servers and have to start using network USB hubs for the authentication keys. The ones I've found will be messy in a rack. Has anyone ever seen a rackmountable ...
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Can you use a USB dongle inside a VMWare ESX Virual Machine?
I need to know if a USB dongle that is required as a license key for a piece of software will accessible from the physical host machine.
This will be a small vSphere 4 installation targeting the ...
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Fix usb device file for a certain USB-Device
I have a problem with a Linux/Ubuntu Desktop machine.
The machine is used as a part of a larger setup (a autonomous boat) that relies on four USB-Devices. Three of them are plugged into an USB Hub ...
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Networked USB Flash Drive [closed]
Is there a product that can be plugged into a computer and appear as a USB flash drive, while in reality it is also say a Samba / FTP server? Along the lines of the Eye-Fi card (www.eye.fi), but ...
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How to remove all previous devices in xp?
On our computers, we use daily dozens of different usb drives from our customers.
This is bad because the registry hive is becoming huge as windows is so "smart" to save them forever
I set ...
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How many usb devices can I connect to a server?
How many USB devices can I connect to a windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 server machine?
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How do you make a WinXP bootable USB drive?
How do you make a WinXP bootable USB drive?
I've seen a bunch of instruction here on ServerFault but they are specific to Vista or Linux, so again - I'm using WinXP. I've also tried unetbootin, but ...
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Boot Linux from big (1.5TB) USB external hard drive
I would like to make a backup solution to be a computer with a single external USB hard drive from which the (1) system boots and (2) stores backups. So in case of any problems with the box, we just ...
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USB storage media - data integrity issues on linux
I've always been somewhat paranoid about verifying data backed up to removable media, so after copying stuff to a USB flash drive or portable HDD, I invariably unmount the drive, remount it and diff -...
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Connect up to 127 USB devices MY ASTERISK! Mine gives up after about 4!
Oh the dream of connecting 127 devices at once! It'd be a dream if I could connect even...say..more than four...
I have a Belkin USB hub with 7 ports on it. At any given time I can get about four ...
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Why are usb hubs only available up to 7 ports? [closed]
Why are usb hubs only available up to 7 ports? Is there something technical that prevents that? I thought USB addressing allowed 127 USB devices to be connected, so that's not it.
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VMWare Server w/USB 2.0 Scanner blue screening
I am running a VMWare Server 2.0 with guest OS of Windows XP SP3. I have a NeatCo scanner hooked up via USB 2.0 port. Since VMWare server 2.0 now supports USB 2.0, I am able to get the scanner to be ...
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Maximum length of a USB cable
Is there a maximum length that a USB cable can be?
I want to know if there is an upper limit to its length before it becomes unreliable or useless. If there was also a way to get around this max ...
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How do I get USB devices working in VMware with Linux as the host, and WinXP as the guest?
I can't get USB devices other than the mouse and keyboard to work in Windows under VMware.
I have Ubuntu Intrepid as my host operating system, and Windows XP Service Pack 2 as the guest operating ...
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physical port locks for ethernet, USB, phone, etc.?
If a user or a visitor sees a port, they will try to stick something into it and then complain to us when it doesn't work or breaks their stuff. Are there such things as physical locks that can be ...
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Boot Debian Linux from image on external USB drive
I have an external USB hard drive with one big VFAT partition. In order to run Linux occasionally on a Windows system, I'd like to maintain a Debian Linux installation in one big file (say debianroot....
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Device can't start error code 10
My (office) Desktop PC have some restrictions to USB devices. From the domain server there are some policies imposed.
If I insert USB Mass Storage device like a memory stick, my system is able to ...
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Recovering Bad USB Flash Drive
Is there a way to recover contents of a bad USB Flash Drive?
I know something has gone wrong when you get asked to format the stick when you plug it in.
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Disabling System Restore on a USB External Disk on *all* Windows machines?
So I can disable System Restore on my USB External Disk by going to
System Properties -> System Restore -> (selecting the drive) -> Settings -> Turn off System Restore on this drive
and this ...
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How can I install Windows 7 without burning a DVD or using a USB Drive? [closed]
I downloaded the .iso of Windows 7 and would now like to install it as my main OS. However I can't because I don't have a DVD Burner, a 2+ GB USB Drive, or a external HDD (or extra HDD). So how can I ...
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USB drive RAID array
I am trying to contemplate how stupid an idea this would be...
I was inspired by some foolish fellow, who soon after the release of Mac OS X 10.0 took 5 USB floppy drives, plugged them into his iMac, ...
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How do I prevent windows from detecting a USB GPS as a mouse?
When most NMEA-compliant GPS devices are connected to a windows machine via USB they appear as a COM port. Sometimes Windows (I've seen this on XP and Vista) detects that new serial device as a mouse ...
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Configure USB port to only act as power source/charger?
Is there any way to configure an USB port on Windows to only act as a charger? I want to charge my MP3 player while I'm listening to music, but playback is not available when the device is connected ...
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Temporary external mounting of 3.5" SATA/IDE drives
What do you use for temporarily externally mounting 3.5" SATA and IDE hard drives? When I'm in the field and just have a laptop with me, I'd like to be able to mount a client's drive to my laptop for ...
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How to make Windows 7 USB flash install media from Linux?
I have:
ISO image of Windows 7 install media
4 GB USB flash drive
no DVD drive
Linux installed
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Manage USB hard disk on Ubuntu
I have some USB drives attached to my Ubuntu machine, I was looking for some commands to:
Power-Off a drive after umounting
it.
Power-On and Re-Mount.
Does it make sense to power-off and on a USB ...
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Installing Windows 7 RC on Mac OS X [closed]
Is it possible to use the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows 7 RC on Mac OS X?
Also, how do I install/boot from usb after copying the iso to the usb harddrive??
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Can you prevent a remote desktop session from accessing usb ports?
The question could also be rephrased. I've got a software application that requires a USB dongle. It works correctly when running at the console of the remote machine, but when connecting via remote ...
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How can you test an external (USB) hard drive?
I have an external drive that has had issues with corrupt data in the past. However, I'm not sure if this is a physical problem with the drive, or whether it was just a file problem.
Typically, I ...
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Locking Desktop USB Ports
How do you lock out the USB ports on the desktop PCs so we can prevent usage of USB drives on the desktops.
I should clarify that these are Windows XP desktops.
We should also assume that like most ...
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Windows Delayed Write Failure - USB 2.0 Hub and External HDD
I have a test server that runs Windows XP, and we attach an external hard drive to it via USB 2.0. (And yes the computer has USB 2.0 ports on it)
The drive is a 1.5 Terrabyte Segate FreeAgent ...
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Which file system to use for portable hard drive shared among different operating systems?
Something similar has been asked already but my criteria is a little different. I need to share a portable hard drive (USB/Firewire) between Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP systems where the files being ...
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Best file system for external (USB) hard drives/USB memory media
Almost all external USB hard drive and USB memory media/sticks come today preformatted with FAT32.
As far as I know the only advantage of the file system is the compatibility among OSes and devices.
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USB floppy key
Does there exist a USB key that acts like a 1.44MB floppy drive? I know there are USB floppy drives and USB flash drives, but if I can find a floppy key, I can finally get rid of the floppy disks ...
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