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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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USB device not going through VM?

I have a server (we'll call it Server01, Win2008R2) that has a Virtual Environment (also a Win 2008R2 Environment) ran through Hyper-V. I have a program on the VM that needs an USB Device (it's actually a small USB scale). When plugging the USB…
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How to perform remote backups on a USB external drive?

I have a server hosting files (~300 Gb) and I need to perform a full backup every week on an exernal USB drive. People without good IT knowledge need to be able to do it too, so it has to be a very simple process with a GUI. The best thing would be…
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Group Policy Preference not applied automatically

DC - Windows Server 2008 R2 Client OS - Window XP I have applied USB block Group Policy Preference setting for Window XP ( i.e Registry setting & usbstor.inf, usbstor.pnf denied policy ). But one of the domain computer this policy was not applied.…
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Kickstart Installation from USB

My goal is to install Oracle Linux 6.3 from USB. My problem is when I copy DVD media to USB. The symlink file repodata is unable to create because the file system is FAT/FAT32. Below is the symlink detail. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Jun 26 2012…
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Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian

How do I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian? The USB Stick is working on other computers. I have used dmesg which returned useful information about the USB Stick. It is attached to /dev/sdc. I tried to mount it using mount -t with different…
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USB Drive on Linux (Redhat Ent 5.3) appears to use up available space on my primary drive

I have about 3.6 'Terabyte' drive that is used for the root of the filesystem. When I look at the Disk Usage Analyzer, it shows that only about 1 'Terabyte' of that space is used. I have a 2 Terrabyte USB drive that is mounted to /media/disk. …
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USB access from switch

Currently, I have a network setup that kind of duct-taped together. I have A.) The wireless DSL modem with four ethernet ports and a USB 2.0 port B.) The wireless router with four ethernet ports and a USB 3.0 port C.) The 25 port switch to which…
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Configure the UPS apcupsd demon to run a script?

I have a ups connected to a Linux server with a usb cable, i installed apcupsd demon and i was wondering how to instruct it to run a shell script i created when a special condition occurs? i.e. the battery is 25% percent or the time left is 10…
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Vista 64 not working after using Norton Ghost

We just acquired 7 new Dell Optiplex machines with Vista 64 bit installed. We installed all of our tools and applications on one of the machines and then used Norton Ghost to deploy to the other 6 machines. We have found that the ghosted machines do…
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udev only reports events for a USB device configuration, not for the USB device itself

I'm trying to execute a certain Python script on USB devices insertion. I need to handle all kinds of USB devices. I'm using a rule like this: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/.../test.py $devpath" When I insert a USB flash…
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Reporting on additions and removals of devices to the USB hub under Windows

Our company is looking to implement a policy of monitoring USB additions and removals to our corporate PC's running the Windows operating system. We know that we can just block USB usage for users with policies under certain condition, but our…
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Linux: USB device power management

I have a USB Hard Drive In Windows, i used to click the "Safely remove" icon, and the hdd stopped spinning and was unmounted. Now, in Linux, unmounting doesn't poweroff the device, and it proceeds spinning when i remove it's cable. Is there a way to…
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How to make a bootable USB out of my VPS?

I copied a backup of my entire VPS (Debian on OpenVZ) on a USB drive, and want to boot from this USB to test something on my server (in fact its duplicate). However, there is no nothing in the boot directory (I've no idea how OpenVZ boots the OS).…
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Force the unloading of a kernel module when the USB devices is unplugged?

I'm using a MultiTech GPRS modem on Ubuntu 8.0.4 (2.6.24-24 kernel with the MultiTech patches to the ti_usb_3410_5052 module). The device works great. However if I disconnect it and then reconnect without removing the module in between, it hangs. …
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strange usb file system corruption

We have a few X7DBT Supermicro motherboards that is using a Kingston DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive as a boot drive. The customer had 10 systems and they say that the site had a power failure. Once the power came back on, the 6 systems did not…
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