On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:55:28AM -0700, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> If they have the USB2 logo on them then they should work.

Not necessarily.  The logo does not indicate any meaningful compliance with
the usb-storage specification.

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Simon Haynes wrote:
> > I guess the question boils down to this: Are all external USB2 drives 
> > interchangeable?  I scanned the linux-USB home page and found an entry for 'usb 
> > external 2.5' which said 'working' but of course I can't get the manuf/device id 
> > until I plug the thing in.

They are not all interchangeable.  Unfortunately, without knowing the
chipset inside, the only way to tell if it will work is to try it.

Matt

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Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver

It's not that hard.  No matter what the problem is, tell the customer 
to reinstall Windows.
                                        -- Nurse
User Friendly, 3/22/1998

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