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RE: HDD enclosures

Nobber — Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:10 pm

Author: Nobber

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:10 pm

Ah, a lovely 120GB external hard drive is mine!

I'll have to get to know how to use udev now, though. Can't have this external HDD and my USB pen drive sharing /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab. Off to find the nearest HOWTO...

RE: HDD enclosures

Ricey — Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:43 pm

Author: Ricey

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:43 pm

yup, mine too usb-storage - USB2 nice and zippy!

RE: HDD enclosures

Rhakios — Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:31 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:31 am

That's how mine work.

RE: HDD enclosures

Nobber — Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:50 pm

Author: Nobber

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:50 pm

So do these HDD enclosures work with the usb-storage module that's used for USB pen drives (for example), or will I need to enable something else in my kernel?

RE: HDD enclosures

Ricey — Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:42 am

Author: Ricey

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:42 am

I just picked up a u/i enclosure from a computer fair for �6 and works wonderfully with my spare 40Gb 2.5" drive.

If you want the company details just let me know!

(i'm on kubuntu 5.04)

RE: HDD enclosures

Erin — Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:37 am

Author: Erin

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:37 am

Surely a HDD enclosure doesn't need to 'work' with *nix. The USB interfaces is a standard so if USB works, these enclosures will.

Avoid LaCie. If you read their manuals they actively encourage people to avoid Unix filesystems in OS X and go for HFS+ instead. A very anti-*nix compnay it seems. I wrote a polite message to complain and stated my money was going elsewhere because of their lack of support.

Erin

RE: HDD enclosures

towy71 — Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:18 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:18 am

Maplins and PCworld both sell usb drive caddies and they should work out of the box with 2.6 kernels

RE: HDD enclosures

Rhakios — Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:37 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:37 pm

I have a couple of USB2 Mobile Disk HD-337-U2 enclosures which I have had for several years now. I have switched different HDs into them at different times and they work fine with Linux and OS X. I don't know who sells them now though.

HDD enclosures

Nobber — Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:21 am

Author: Nobber

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:21 am

I'd like to get one of those HDD enclosure thingies that effectively turn an internal hard disk drive into an external drive that you can connect via USB.

Anyone got any recommendations, or words of warning about compatibility with Linux?

Thanks.