[SATLUG] External Hard Drive

[james]

By the way, I specifically said USB, but External SATA drives should
also work well. I'm not sure that IEEE1394 is on by default in most
desktop distributions, so if you get a firewire external HDD, you may
have to fiddle with the CLI to get it to work...

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:31 -0600, james wrote:
> assuming you get a USB external drive, it should just show up on most
> distros. (X,K,ED)Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, and (lin,free)spire will show
> it with out any problems.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:16 -0600, Seth Sanchez wrote:
> > Does anyone know any specific qualifications I need to look for in an
> > external drive? Would I just need some drivers or a specific kernel? I'm
> > looking around but I want to make sure it will work. I'm using kernel 2.6.11
> > .
> > 
> > -- 
> >                        - Seth
>