On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:16, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> USB-connected drives. :-) Real ones, not flash jobbies ...
> External ... well, that's not too big a deal.
> Dick Smith sell the enclosures, I've heard comment that they seem to
> work fine with Linux, although I've not tried them.

The enclosures work fine with Linux. I've got one with a DVD drive
inside it, hooked up to my laptop with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card. Everything
auto-detected and just worked under Linux (Debian Unstable). Windows
required a couple of drivers and a reboot or two (XP Pro).

-- 
Tim Wright

Assistant Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Canterbury

"Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to
effect political change."

  -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

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