USB disks?

[Brian Chadwick]

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