Re: USB on a e450?

"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.user
Organization Red Hat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 15:50 -0400, Alex Getty (Xenolithic) wrote:
> Hey I just wanted to shoot this question out there to see if it's
> possible or not.  I know that e450s never had USB as an option, but
> later (and some prior) Sun systems did.  What I want to know is: Once
> I get Aurora running, will I be able to add a USB addon card and
> things work all hunky-dory like?  I'm looking to attach an array of
> USB hard drives to store some really nasty stuff that we're doing
> viral research on in the lab. 

Should work fine, I doubt you'll be able to boot of those drives, but
Linux should see the controller fine.

~spot
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