Hard Drives.

ext3 I think. I don't want to mess with the DReambox while it is very busy ftp ing. It does support samba but I have never got round to setting it up. It is copying faster than I thought. 80 GB and it is saying about 2 hours. When I swop the Hard Drive in the Dreambox I will have to copy it back.
 
Just a thought, can teh dreambox not support two HDs internaly? Even if it meant leaving teh case of whislt you copied everything across?
 
No it can only take 1 HD. The other ide channel has a compact flash reader permantly on it.
 
IDE Channels support two devices each or do you mean there is only one ide channel with disk as master and cf as slave?
 
yep 1 channel. Maybe when I have Linux on my my machine I will be able to copy from the Dreambox drive to my PC using my USB2 to IDE adapter
 
To quote the ad, 'there is another way!'

What filesystem do you use under Windows? NTFS or FAT?

Definately if FAT you could just boot a LiveCD such as knoppix and use your USB/IDE adaptor. NTFS is slightly more risky, I would want to dump it onto an empty partition if possible just to be safe(or ghost the drive first. NTFS write support is out there but is not as advanced in development as FAT support.
 
NTFS. So are you telling me I wont be able to access the 180GB NTFS partition I have created when I stick Linux on the 16GB I have unused at the moment? I have also been toying with running Linux on my server ish machine that has 3 120GB NTFS drives in it :(
 
Ooops the moment was that blonde I couldn't think of anything thick to say!!! ;) anyway I will leave now before I get my hand slapped for thread wandering... partitions was it??? :p
 
You can, it just requires a little extra configuration. NTFS is basically a closed system so people have to 'cheat' slightly in order to support wrote access. They effectively use the windows dll's to con the filesystem into thinking it is windows that is trying to write to it.
 
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