On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a > 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that, > apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the > question is: what software would have been sitting there in the > background, handling that? > > i see no official .deb package for a maxtor, and there's nothing > in udev about it so, trying not to sound overly dense, what should i > be looking for that would have been the backing software to handle > recognition of that drive?
never mind, my mistake, the old backups were done via cron, not by actual button pushing, although i can see that the kernel these days does in fact contain support for the 1-touch maxtors. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org