2002-09-27-05:20:58 J.S.Sahambi: > Any body using a externel USB hard drive on linux? It it works let me > know its make and model.
The hard drive I happily use (Pocketec Pockey USB 2.0 30GB) is listed in <URL:http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/>; that seems to be a pretty good reference site with lists of devices people have gotten to work with Linux's USB support. <URL:http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/> lists the hardware that the Linux USB Mass Storage driver developer has, and the vendors who have been helpful; that might be worth a peek too. A suggestion: if you prize interop, the ability to plug the same device with the same contents into different computers running different OSes, then the vfat filesystem (which the drive will probably be formatted with when you buy it) will probably work best, and it's Ok if not ideal for "removable" media (which an external USB hard drive should be considered). If you don't need the interop, I really recommend running a recent enough Linux distrib so besides recent USB support you've also got well-integrated ext3 support, and use ext3fs on the hard drive. When I reformatted my Pockey from vfat to ext3, I got the lovely crash-proof log filesystem, and got a really nice speedup relative to vfat as well. All I lost was the ability to hook it up to non-Linux boxes, which I wasn't looking for anyway. -Bennett
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