[wplug] Linux Compatible External Drives

[F W Deible]

I just got a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent, which is not usable out of the box.
It (and every other one I could find) comes formatted NTFS; I used GParted
to make it work with my system.

If somebody finds one formatted FAT, that'd be great, or like someone else
said buy a hdd and an enclosure.

Good Luck :)

On Feb 5, 2008 2:47 PM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:41:52 -0500
> "Mackenzie Morgan" <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> [Context lost due to top posting]
>
> Even better, how about a USB enclosure - they're usually
> pretty generic, and some may even suppor firewire.
>
> --
> Tom Rhodes
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