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If a door can be ajar, why can a jar not be adoor?
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I don't know what they mean by an EXT.PORT.
If the external harddrive is in an enclosure, it'll either go through USB, eSATA or Firewire.
I believe all are supported, i can personally say i've had nothing but good experience with USB, and a mostly good experience with eSATA (though that was at 8.10, no doubt eSATA support is better now, even then i could do everything short of boot off the eSATA drive, and that was more of a BIOS problem).
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Don't know if this helps. BUT - I would be very suprised to find any harddrives that does not work with linux. However - some harddrives come preformattpet with NFTS for example. Then it will not natively work on linux (you need to install nfts). I just format with FAT - which all systems read.
E.g. my wd passport external harddrives come with crypto-functionality and other 'goodies' that extend the mere harddrive cabability. This is windows only and will not work on linux (or mac). It is installed on a hidden partition that is undeleteable. And so I loose a fev hundred megs - for a feature that only works in win.
But you can always save and read files.
cheers
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Thanks for the speedy replies.
I think that in the question that I quoted the "EXT.PORT" simply was a contracted version of external portable; the question does make sense when read like that.
I did think that there shouldn't be any problems with it, but I also thought that sites selling computer parts and accessories should know something about it.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
If a door can be ajar, why can a jar not be adoor?
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^^I am sure you are right, blackbinary
Anyways - according to the cardboard box my harddisk come in - only win and mac is supported - which of cause is BS - from one point of view.On the other hand - if crypto is essential, then it will not work on linux. I guess the ext.port is a simialr situation -but I dont know?
and since I dont know - i will now keep quiet. :-)
Last edited by achristoffersen (2010-03-22 22:08:22)
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I think the only time you have to be worried about Linux compatibility with USB devices is when it comes to firmware, like the built-in operating systems on certain media players (and then it's usually a matter of having software to build an ODBC file). If it's just a storage device there should be no issues.
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Perhaps I'm just wreckless, but I have Iomega, Passport and Lacie external USB drives - none of which guaranteed to work with Linux - and was nonetheless able to use all of them without issues after formatting with fdisk and running mkfs.ext3 to create a Linux filesystem.
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I believe the Seagates DID have a problem with Linux. They would spin down. Windows and the mac would send a command that would spin them back up. Linux did not do this. You had to contact Seagate and they gave you a utility(don't know if it was a firmware patch) that would disable their power management.
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My PC has a 1Tb internal hard-drive . . .
I also, use 2 different external hard-drives (both @ 1Tb each)
One Maxtor (a Seagate off-shoot) and the new one is a H-P external hard-drive
I've had the Maxtor (Seagate) for almost 2 years, first used it with Windows and now with Linux (Debian-testing) I've done no re-formating when switching from Windows to Linux.
And the H-P ... I've only used with Linux. When, I bought the H-P external hard-drive, I read and re-read the box and it never even mentioned GNU/Linux, so I wasn't sure if it would work?
Frankly I've not had any problems with either of my external hard-drives.
Most hardware ... like external hard-drives or high-end storage devices, have a 3 to 7 day return policy. I'd say buy it, try it ... return it if necessary.
Last edited by vrkalak (2010-03-23 03:52:45)
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I have a western digital external HD - formated it as NTFS so I could use it all (instead of 1/2 the space) and it is now being shared over the network via my ubuntu computer (soon to be #!-statler-rc) as a samba drive No issues here
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I have a Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 500GB and it's worked fine with any distro I've used it with. The box and manual don't say anything about Linux compatibility, but it's always worked.
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