Hi Tamas, On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:16:17AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > Hi, > > I about to buy an external hard drive (or an enclosure+hard drive), > either USB or Firewire. > > I would like to ask how to check if this will be supported by Debian, > is there something to watch out for, whether you would recommend USB > 2.0 or Firewire. > > If you have specific models which are working with your linux, I would > appreciate if you shared that. I am looking for a cable-powered one. > > Tamas I recently had the chance to test one of the new external 300GB Hard drives. It worked out of the box on my PB G4 12" and a colleagues' 17" using firewire and usb. The only concern I'd have with that drive comes from the bad experiences in reliability I have with internal maxtor disks at work. Some months year ago I plugged in a firewire drive - don't know the model, probably noname - and ist also worked flawlessly. HTH, Wolfi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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