On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:10, Derrick Hendricks wrote: > A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, > before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I > thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the > question. Does anyone know if the Maxtor OneTouch USB 2.0 drive is > compatible or for that matter, Western Digital’s external USB 2.0 > drive? My friend and I are looking to use it as a backup media, but > don't want to buy it until we are resonably sure it will work. The > one-touch backup feature isn't necessary in my book since I can write a > script to copy over the files that I want. Another friend of mine had a > Seagate variety, and it registered as a USB mass storage device that he > could mount and copy things to. Can these other drives work the same > way? > > I use a 2.4 kernel and he uses a 2.6. Both have hotplug installed and > running. Will the hotplug recognize the USB drive and install the > correct drivers? If these drives are not usable, can someone recommend > one that is? > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list I'm not sure about the maxtor or WD drive but I have bought a case for an external drive and it works without a problem, as soon as I connect it I see a new drive in /dev (I'm using devfs) After connecting I just do mount /dev/sdd1 ....... and I'm done.
I assume both drives will work perfectly since they both have to support the usb disk standard (the same one used by every usb drive) -- Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)fawo.nl -- [email protected] mailing list
