[ale] USB external HDD

[stephen at bee.net (Stephen Cristol)]

On May 30, 2005, at 11:26 PM, H. A. Story wrote:
> What I am looking for now is a external HDD USB would offer me the 
> most.  I don't have firewire right now.  I understand that the device 
> needs to support Mass storage standards(?).
> [...]
>
> Does anyone know of a list that shows which ones work with Linux?  I 
> wonder how safe I would be going by the compatible with MAC OS 8.6 or 
> higher on statement the box also.

While OS X runs a BSD variant, it continues to use HFS+ by default. I 
would be cautious about using Mac 8.* (or even 10.*) compatibility as a 
surrogate for linux compatibility.

S

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