Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Sarpy Sam
I just bought a Maxtor external hard drive the other day, hooked it up and it works fine. It's a simple drive and not one of the one touch backup models. I am using 2.6. kernel so I can't speak for 2.4 kernel. As soon as I plugged it in it was recognized as sda and I was able to mount it and us

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:10, Derrick Hendricks wrote: > A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, > before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I > thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the > question. Does anyone know if

Re: [gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Smith
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:10 -0500, Derrick Hendricks wrote: > A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, > before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I > thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the > question. Does anyone know if

[gentoo-user] USB 2.0 extermal hard drive question

2005-02-07 Thread Derrick Hendricks
A friend of mine and I have been using Linux for a long time. But, before my friend or I go out and buy a USB external hard drive, I thought I'd just make sure that it is compatible. So, Here's the question. Does anyone know if the Maxtor OneTouch USB 2.0 drive is compatible or for that matter,