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