[wplug] Linux Compatible External Drives

[Mark Sikora]

You talk about supporting linux right out of the box, but really, if you say
that, you mean you want it to have an ext2/3 filesystem.  How hard is it to
format the drive?  I wouldn't choose to use ntfs even if my kernel did
support it cause why risk it?  Use a linux filesystem.  IBM JFS is nice and
won't take an hour to format either.

Just my two cents...


On Feb 6, 2008 7:28 PM, Diana A Clarion <dclarion at fnordnet.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:47 -0500, Tom Rhodes 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.
> >
> I was just about to suggest that.  My partner just built a 500 Gb eSATA
> backup rig around an enclosure with a JMicron JM20336 chip and a Western
> Digital drive.  Granted, she's using it under WinBlows (I've been after
> her for a year and a half to dual-boot Ubuntu, to no avail), but Gentoo
> claims that the chip is supported.
>
> A weekend project, maybe?
>
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