USB disks?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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.
> 
> 
I have used a few different USB drives and drive adapters, and I have 
not found one yet that doesn't just work when you plug it in. With older 
distributions, I have run into problems of having to mount drives with 
more then one partition manualy, but even that works automatically now.

Mikkel