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.<br><br>If somebody finds one formatted FAT, that'd be great, or like someone else said buy a hdd and an enclosure.<br>
<br>Good Luck :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2008 2:47 PM, Tom Rhodes <<a href="mailto:trhodes@freebsd.org">trhodes@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:41:52 -0500<br>"Mackenzie Morgan" <<a href="mailto:macoafi@gmail.com">macoafi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Most drives are FAT32-formatted, aren't they? FAT32 is compatible with just<br>
> about everything.<br>><br>> On Feb 5, 2008 2:37 PM, <a href="mailto:beer@cmu.edu">beer@cmu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:beer@cmu.edu">beer@cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Hey kids, hope everyone is well.<br>
> ><br>> > I was wondering if anyone knows of any good external drives that support<br>> > linux out of the box?<br>> ><br>> > I need something that is 500G, and preferably supports both usb and<br>
> > firewire, but I can do without the firewire. If it had a usuable encryption<br>> > option that would also be swell.<br>> ><br>> > I've done some searches and I find drives that OS X and Solaris compatible<br>
> > out of the box but none yet that support linux.<br>> ><br>> > I know I can just reformat the drive and all, but given the magnitude of<br>> > the work I need this for, I want to have to do as little as possible to the<br>
> > drives before I can use them.<br><br></div>[Context lost due to top posting]<br><br>Even better, how about a USB enclosure - they're usually<br>pretty generic, and some may even suppor firewire.<br><br>--<br>
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