portable hard disks

This is a discussion about portable hard disks in the Linux Hardware category; I intend to get a USB 2. 0 external Mobile Hard Disk Box to fit in my old Western Digital HDD. Would this be compatible with GNU/Linux?.

Linux Hardware 765 This topic was started by iamroot, 2005-06-21 13:24. Last reply by iamroot, 2005-06-22 01:55

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iamroot

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I intend to get a USB 2.0 external Mobile Hard Disk Box to fit in my old Western Digital HDD. Would this be compatible with GNU/Linux?

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2005-06-21 15:34

Originally posted by iamroot:

Quote:I intend to get a USB 2.0 external Mobile Hard Disk Box to fit in my old Western Digital HDD. Would this be compatible with GNU/Linux?
I got a 3.5 inch for an old laptop HDD from newegg.com and it works perfectly in linux. Not so good in Mac OSX though, go figure.