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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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How to safely remove a USB device from 2008 Core server?

I have a Hyper-V Core server 2008 that I administer via command line and remote tools. We have now got a new backup system in place and it involves me connecting an External USB drive (G:) to backup system state files. My question is how should I…
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windows service access network resources as well as local usb drives

The Windows Service application I deploy on Windows Server 2003 needs to access network resources as well as the usb tokens I plug in. When I use local system account I can access the usb but not the network files. And with the other user option I…
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"Safely remove hardware"...doesn't

I have an external USB harddisk that I have scripted to safely shut down after a backup, so the backup operator can unplug it, and knows not to if the lights are still on for some reason. It's always worked fine using the DevEject command-line…
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Booting from hard drive fails after installing Centos from USB Stick

I created a Centos Live 5.4 Bootable USB drive. I used this to install Centos on a HP Netbook. When the system goes to write the Grub boot loader to disk, it wants to write the boot loader to the usb drive (/dev/sda), not the hard disk (/dev/hda).…
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USB Drive becomes read-only after a while

Our backup "solution" includes hooking up a USB drive to the backup server, and running a custom script that rsyncs the data on to the USB drive. However, after a while, the drive becomes read-only. Here's the output of dmesg: [2502923.708171] …
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kvm and libvirt: hotplug virtual disk as USB storage

Observations (1) A new virtual disk can be hot plugged into a KVM/qemu VM as a qemu virtio device, e.g. see question KVM and Libvirt - How do I hotplug a new virtio disk?. However, this requires PCI hot-plugging support from the guest OS and this is…
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USB networking setup between Android and embedded Linux

I'm working on a project right now where we have an embedded Linux system running some sensor/motor control functionality, and we're creating a GUI application to allow the user to control the system. In the future we may run both applications on a…
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Read data off Apple NGFF M2

I have one of those propietary NGFF M2 SSDs found in older Macbooks. I bought a converter which is supposed to convert it to a standard NVMe. When I plug it in my Linux box only sees it as a SCSI device. It doesn't show in lsblk and I can't dd…
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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 and the cursor goes crazy. How do I tell Windows…
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Autofs and udev rules to restrict usb permissions to groups

I need some help trying to figure out how to restrict the reading and writing access of usb devices. There are two groups on my system: usbreaders: only should have rights to access and read the usb content. usbwriters: should have reading and…
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MMCLI on BusyBox returns "Cannot request manual scan of devices: unsupported' - IMEI

I have a USB modem plugged into a BusyBox v1.23.2 appliance. Typically I would be able to get the IMEI number using the MMCLI command set. However when this specific card (multiple of the same card - so this specific model) is used I get the output…
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Control lamp from FreeBSD

I have a webcam connected to a FreeBSD server that I want to collect and email an image on a schedule via a cron job. The room it is in may not always be lit. I am hoping to find some solution where a light can illuminate the subject just at the…
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Disable usb mass storage on a per user basis

We are currently trying to implement a policy that dictates that some users may use usb mass storage devices and others may not. These users can use any device available in the company. Is there any way to implement this in linux (debian)? We have…
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usb stick "not authorized to perform"

Hello (sorry for my poor english). I have a fresh install of desktop clients linux mint 19.2 with a NIS authentication. Local users can plug usb-stick and it automount without problem. On the other hand, NIS users get this message: "Not authorized…
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Network adapter for HP ScanJet 8300

I have an HP Scanjet 8300 flatbed scanner, which comes with a USB connection. Now I would like to put it on my network rather than attached to a computer through USB, so I'm trying to find a suitable network adapter. HP sells one for other models…
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