[wplug] Linux Compatible External Drives

[beer at cmu.edu]

While I appreciate the input from everyone I think you all are providing
solutions to a question I didnt ask.

My question isnt:

'How do I mount an external drive to a linux system?',

it is:

 'Is anyone aware of an external drive usb/firewire drive with native
support for linux?'

I appreciate the fact that there are a lot of diy solutions to mounting a
drive to linux but these do not support my actual needs.  External drives
with native support for OS X and Solaris do exist so it didnt seem that much
of a stretch that they might exist for linux too but I have as of yet not
found one.

I am not simply trying to add a single drive to my system.  I will be
distributing large volumes of data using external drives hundreds of times a
year.  And while an hour is not a great deal of time to spend making a
change to a personal system, when you are passing along the cost of that
hour to your customer it adds up.  Thus I was simply trying to avoid some
labor in the process to make it more efficient and cost effective.

In addition drives that support these systems natively come with
preinstalled utilities for encryption and such that I wished to use.

Again thanks for the input guys but I think I got my answer, no one on the
list is aware of such a device.

Thanks again

-b

On Feb 6, 2008 9:44 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can't use NTFS?  What distro are you using?  There should be ntfs-3g
> fuse drivers available.  Can OSX use NTFS?  The drives usually say Windows
> and OSX.  I thought the only FS they had in common was FAT32.
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008 7:54 PM, F W Deible <fwdeible at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
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