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Toshiba 60GB external HD MK6021GAS with USB 2.0 connection.
It worked under Slackware 10.1-10.2, SuSE 9.3, and Fedora 4 with FAT32 and Reiserfs. Transfer speed reached 20 MB/s under Kernel 2.4 and 2.6. Here is the output of 'dmesg | tail'
basel@darkstar:~$ dmesg | tail
Vendor: USB 2.0 Model: Storage Device Rev: 0100
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdb: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
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