USB disks?

[Simon Andrews]

Brian Chadwick wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> I'm thinking about getting one of the big USB 2.0 external
>> disks companies like LaCie, Maxtor, and/or Western Digital
>> sell (mostly for backup - perhaps whip out a script that
>> uses rsync to save copies of everything).
>>
>> Do all these USB 2.0 disk drives "just work" under linux,
>> or are there the typical variations in compatibility that
>> seem to plague everything?
>>
>> Any particular model USB 2.0 external drive with exceptional
>> linux support out there? Good experiences to report?
>>
>> Thanks for any info.
>>
>>
>>   
> just plug it in ... it will work fine

Just to let you know that this isn't always the case:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155536

Never tracked down what was going wrong and I got rid of the drive so 
can't test it with the latest kernels, but some drives certainly have 
problems (I'm sure most are OK though).

Simon.