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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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detect specific device is USB / SATA apart from dmesg output

Suppose in a linux machine you have both SATA and USB devices present, and if they are all detected properly, how do you know whether a specific device(sda1/ sdb1) is USB device OR SATA device. Note: devices needs to be manually mounted. Note:…
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How to create a virtual ethernet card for SSH tunneling through USB device? [W7]

I have an SSH tunneling that is connected to an USB device that is connected to the Internet. How can I configure a virtual ethernet card that get everything to 127.0.0.1:1080?
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Copy large amount of small files using robocopy from USB disk to SATA disk

Would specifying the /MT option in robocopy give me better or worse performance, when copying a large amount of smaller files (~10-150kB) from an USB attached drive to an internal SATA drive? Should I go all crazy and specify /MT:128? Both drives…
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Windows. Setting user permissions on usb peripherals

At work, I finally got the right to have a Debian installed into a Virtualbox on a Windows XP host. The USB access does not work in my Debian because it requires authorization from the system admin and I can't have admin rights to my Windows. Our…
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P2V conversion with VMM to a USB Drive

For testing purpose, I would like to be able to do P2V conversion thanks to VMM by creating the VM on a USB Hard Drive. VMM (I guess due to Hyper-V) does not show my USB Hard Drive in the hard drive list. It only shows me the physical hard…
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Which motherboards support ECC RAM and USB 3.0?

I'm gathering specs to build a highly reliable file server, somewhat future proof for the next 3-5 years. The component I'm starting with is the motherboard. Are there motherboards that have been shown to support ECC RAM (and which particular…
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How can I allow non-administrators to use port-specific USB devices that require a driver-reinstall for each new port?

Is there a way to give non-admin users the right to (re-)install drivers for a port-specific USB device so that they do not need an administrator login every time they plug the same device into a different port? I have a group of engineers who need…
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Set custom mount point and mount options for USB stick

I have an USB stick which contains private stuff like the SSH key. I want to mount this stick to my own home directory with 0700 permissions. Currently I do this with this line in /etc/fstab: LABEL=KAYSTICK /home/k/.kaystick auto…
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Graceful Shutdown of Ubuntu Machine with APC UPS - Network to USB Cable

So I have two APC UPS devices: Back-UPS ES 500 and 725. These two UPSes work fine but recently we had an extended outage and both of our servers connected to these UPSes shutdown and one of them had a RAID Drobo that suffered disk damage. Now I…
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Connect up to 127 USB devices MY ASTERISK! Mine gives up after about 4!

Oh the dream of connecting 127 devices at once! It'd be a dream if I could connect even...say..more than four... I have a Belkin USB hub with 7 ports on it. At any given time I can get about four of them to work. (Actually, all the ports work,…
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TCP/IP Printing Issue in Windows Server 2008

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 Entrprise in a VM on my laptop. I am having problems setting up a printer. It's an HP PSC 1355 - drivers were installed automatically when I plugged the device into a USB port. I enabled the Print and Document…
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Slow backup rate for fileservers using external hdd

I inherited a backup plan from the previous sysadmin that looks like this: Backup each 150GB of data from two fileservers to two 3.5in external harddrive (USB 2.0) by mapping the data partitions to our quad-core Dell R200 server (Windows Server…
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Miroring usb drives (master/slave, booting linux from them)

I have a small server that boots from a usb drive and i would like to protect myself from the drive dying. I can't add another hard drive. My question is: can i add one or two usb sticks of the same size and mirror the first one, so i can just…
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What software can I use to send a USB device over the network from a debian server to a windows client?

I have a netbook with not much power, 1GHz CPU & 1G memory. I'd like to install a headless linux to it, either Debian or TinyCore, both of which use aptitude & dpkg. I'm not sure which package has a server to run in Debian and a client that can run…
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USB drive only for Linux backups: To partition or not to partition?

I have a 2TB USB drive plugged into CentOS 5.5 that will be formatted with ext3 and will only be used for file-level backups. I've always partitioned my drives but a while ago when I had setup Amazon EBS the docs said to just format the whole device…
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