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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