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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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Boot Windows from USB disk with Ubuntu kernel and initrd

I have a situation where I have to boot using Ubuntu kernel and initrd first. Then check for attached USB/SCSI disk which has a Windows Installation and then boot Windows through USB/SCSI disk. I am curious to know what are the changes I have to…
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Does anyone know where I could find a 2 input USB voltage meter?

What we really need is a tiny UPS, of sorts. We'll be hooking up a solar cell and a battery to a single board computer. Currently, that SBC is a custom Pic32 device, and it does it's own UPS and voltage monitoring duties. I've been tasked with…
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Device can't start error code 10

My (office) Desktop PC have some restrictions to USB devices. From the domain server there are some policies imposed. If I insert USB Mass Storage device like a memory stick, my system is able to detect If I insert a iPod, mobile or any other kind…
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Enable re-attached mouse/keyboard via ssh?

I had Ubuntu 9.10 x64 Desktop installed on a nettop I have (that I normally run headless), and yesterday I decided to take the plunge and update to 10.04. So, I plugged in a screen and usb mouse/keyboard, booted up and set to work. It was 1am, and…
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Removing/hiding the option to "safely remove USB devices" via GPO and registry

I ave already gone through How to prevent Windows from safely removing hardware? and it has a registry based solution for WinXP, however what I am after is: 1. a GPO based solution 2. windows 7, 2003 and 2008 as well thanks UPD:…
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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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Microsoft Active Directory Admin - Discriminate usable USB Disk devices

good morning, I have been trying for a while through policy management or other microsoft media to restrict the use of USB removable disks. I know that through Active Direcory I can enable and disable indisciminately or discriminating users, usb…
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How do I prevent a faulty USB drive from freezing my Ubuntu server?

I have an issue where a mounted external USB hard drive fails, this causes the IO Wait of the system to spike (I can see this in Grafana) but shortly after the system becomes completely unresponsive, so I cannot ssh into it to force a umount or to…
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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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Can't live-attach a USB device to a kvm virtual host again after upgrades

I have a DS2490 USB 1-wire interface on the home server conway which is attached to one of the virtual machines so that that virtual machine can read the sensors on the 1-wire network. This attachment works when the machine is started, the DS2490…
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How to auto redirect a usb device on virt-manager

How do I automatically redirect a USB device to a remote KVM? preferrably filtered by ID. I have a KVM running on a server (QEMU+SSH), and the display protocol is Spice. How could I always redirect a USB device with a specific ID to the remote…
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"hdparm -s 1" on USB disk -> bricked? - USB drive is on power on in standby mode which cannot be reverted with hdparm

I have a disk which was apparently put into PUIS mode with hdparm. As the disk does not spin up on power on automatically, I think I need to send it directly to the USB device (which is not even recognized as the device doesnt turn on) I think this…
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