[Bio-Linux] External hard drive for Biolinux

[Andor J Kiss]

Hi,

    I've actually heard that some Seagate Drives have firmware that only
works with Windows.  We use LaCie backup drives that come with a linux
based (GUI) management system to backup our BioLinux workstations:
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10584 

Regards,
Andor

On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 10:56 +0100, Tony Travis wrote: 

> On 05/10/13 02:14, Tauqeer Alam wrote:
> > Hi All I am planning to purchase an external hard drive for data back
> > up, but do not which drive works better for Biolinux. I have heard
> > that external drives are OS specific, so wanted to be sure before I
> > purchase it. I see Mac and Window compatible drives on amazon but
> > none of them talk about Linux. Does Western Digital My Passport 2TB
> > work for Biolinux? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
> 
> Hi, Tauqeer.
> 
> The external drives are only OS-specific in that some are pre-formatted
> for Mac or Windows and have a partition on them with proprietary backup
> software. We've used 'Mac' 2TB WD My-MyBook's for backup: Just
> repartition with an MSDOS disk label and reformat them to Linux ext4.
> 
> If you want to use my ETOH backup, you need to run Tim's setup script.
> 
> HTH,
> 
>   Tony.
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