Re: USB external disk drive compatibility



On 7/30/07, Wartnick, James <James.Wartnick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a laptop with RH Enterprise 5 and am looking at getting a
portable USB external disk drive. I was
Looking at the Western Digital Passport but am unsure if it is
supported. I didn't see Linux drivers on their
Web-site. Anyone know if it's supported?

Yes, it should work fine.

More than likely you'll have to reformat the drive. The USB drive that I
connected to my FedoraCore 6 system would not mount, because for some strange
reason, FC6 does not support NTFS (Windblows). Doing so means that I can
longer attach it to W2K, or later.

If there is a secret as to how to get USB NTFS drives to mount, I'll pull
the data off and get Windblows to reformat it.

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