On 4/26/07, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > > For the money, the unit does exactly what I need. I wish LinkSys would > embrace > Unslung instead of fighting it. <Cough> ----snippet----- Mike Wagner, director of marketing for Linksys states: "While Linksys does not support any of the alternate firmware available for the NSLU2, we are always delighted to see a product gain such widespread acceptance. Like the similar community that emerged to enhance the WRT54G before it, the creativity and ingenuity of Linksys customers inspires us to continually improve our products." So it sounds like Linksys is aware of the goings-on and is planning nothing to discourage it. ---end snippet---- source: http://smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/29774/77/1/1/ Don S. > > Quoting John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com>: > > > On 4/26/07, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Be advised that if you get one of these units when you connect your > drive > > > to it > > > , depending of the firmware version, it will re-format the drive to a > > > linux > > > exp3 device. You won't be able to connect the USB drive to your > Windows > > > box and > > > access it again. > > > > > > > > Not true - I just unslung a stock NSLU, moved one of the externals to my > > windows box and installed ext2 drivers for winodws ( > > http://www.fs-driver.org/). Got my data off. The unslung NSLU now has > one > > of the original drives (original data intact) and a usb printer (which I > can > > print to from any computer on my network) > > > > As off-line storage I like it beats tape drives, but as a device that I > > > could > > > run a database against or any high access application, not so much. > > > > > > Don S. > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070426/f472a34c/attachment.htm