[ale] USB external HDD

[Geoffrey]

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.

I picked up a Maxtor 'one-touch' a while back.  It has both usb and 
firewire.  Works fine under RHWS [3|4] and SuSE 9.[2|3].  I've tried 
both firewire and usb.  Plug and play...

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.6adb6b8313633595062e6be791346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Products/External%20Hard%20Drives

Or for convenience....

ttp://tinyurl.com/3o7qq

> 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.

I don't do that much windows stuff, but I'd suspect that if you what 
read/write access via windows and linux, some variation of fat is your 
only reliable choice.

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Until later, Geoffrey