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Hi,<BR>
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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 <BR>
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Regards,<BR>
Andor<BR>
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On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 10:56 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
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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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