[wplug] Linux Compatible External Drives

[Mackenzie Morgan]

Most drives are FAT32-formatted, aren't they?  FAT32 is compatible with just
about everything.

On Feb 5, 2008 2:37 PM, beer at cmu.edu <beer at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hey kids, hope everyone is well.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any good external drives that support
> linux out of the box?
>
> I need something that is 500G, and preferably supports both usb and
> firewire, but I can do without the firewire.  If it had a usuable encryption
> option that would also be swell.
>
> I've done some searches and I find drives that OS X and Solaris compatible
> out of the box but none yet that support linux.
>
> I know I can just reformat the drive and all, but given the magnitude of
> the work I need this for, I want to have to do as little as possible to the
> drives before I can use them.
>
> TIA
>
> -b
>
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