<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:dalan@visi.com">dalan@visi.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:dalan@visi.com">dalan@visi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Be advised that if you get one of these units when you connect your drive to it<br>, depending of the firmware version, it will re-format the drive to a linux<br>exp3 device. You won't be able to connect the USB drive to your Windows box and
<br>access it again.</blockquote><div><br><br>Not true - I just unslung a stock NSLU, moved one of the externals to my windows box and installed ext2 drivers for winodws (<a href="http://www.fs-driver.org/">http://www.fs-driver.org/
</a>). 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)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As off-line storage I like it beats tape drives, but as a device that I could<br>run a database against or any high access application, not so much.<br><br>Don S.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>