Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks. One of the guys here wants to buy an external, USB hard
> drive to attach to his linux laptop (a Dell). I think he's currently
> running SL 3.0.3, but we could install newer versions.
>
> I recommended a Seagate drive that looked reasonable to me (and I tend
> to be partial to Seagate). The guy points out that there's no mention
> of linux in the specs for the drive. I've offered to buy the drive
> from him if it doesn't work, but he's still reluctant.
>
> If you've successfully used an external USB hard drive with ANY
> configuration of hardware and linux software, would you please send me
> the details? It's probably best to do this off-list.
I use a Maxtor Onetouch 250 GB (or so) external USB drive with SL4.x. It
works flawlessly. I'd even written up this
[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hnarayan/maxtor-harddrive-linux.html] on
getting it running in an earlier Fedora Core, but on a newer SL it's
literally plug-and-play.
Harish