[ale] USB external HDD

[zeb]

I have  bought two Western Digital external USB hard drives from Fry's, both 
80 GB.  They work nicely (no problems) with Slackware 9.1, 10.1 (both with 
"stock" kernels) and Windows 98se.  I don't remember having to load any 
special drivers for Linux; I think I did for Win.

73, Zeb Morgan, N4ZM


On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:26 am, H. A. Story wrote:
> This may have come up before. Sorry if it has.  I have played around
> with my USB stick and got it to work with my slackware box.  Love it.
>
>
> What I am looking for now is a external HDD USB would offer me the most.
>   I don't have firewire right now.  I understand that the device needs
> to support Mass storage standards(?).  I most have spent a good 30
> minutes at frys on Sunday looking at the drives and didn't see one that
> even said it would support Mass Storage. currently looking at the
> network accessible drives too, but maybe later when the cost comes down.
>
> Does anyone know of a list that shows which ones work with Linux?  I
> wonder how safe I would be going by the compatible with MAC OS 8.6 or
> higher on statement the box also.
>
>
> Then later I will have to wonder what is the best cross platform format.
> FAT,FAT32,NTFS,or Linux) probably the old FAT32 so I can read/write with
>   Linux and Windows.
>
>
> Adrin
>
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