Portable HDDs?
 

Hi,

Just wondering if the Astone ISO Slim portable hard drive would work with Linux, links:http://www.astone.com.au/iso_slim.htm and http://achsyd12.astone.com.au/soft/Iso_Slim_manual.pdf

I use Fedora Core 4, and I am considering buying one of these, apparently they work with Windows (plug and play with XP etc.) and Macintosh (unsure of which OS version), can anyone take an educated guess as to how Linux would take them?



Thanks,



Tom

I run FC4 and use a 160 GB usb hard drive with no problems, so I would think that a smaller usb hard drive would work as well.

Will your hardware work?

Problem is that the thing is a fairly new product, I can't find many records on the net of people using them with Linux :(

I believe they are the same hard drives as found in I-pods, but I don't know anything about the controller :-/


Thanks,

Tom

My usb drive is actually an IDE drive and it has a 110v power cord, so apparently it has the power supply in the case rather than using the power from the usb connection.

I have no idea what the 1.8" HDD is, so I am out of advise for you.

BTW, I picked mine up at computer geeks for less than $100, which isn't bad for a 160 GB drive (the drive was advertised as being refurbished rather than new).

It had to be partitioned by Windows, however as when I partitioned and formatted under Linux, Windows couldn't see the fat32 partition I had made.

I partitioned it with two partitions and formatted it as ntfs under Windows, then booted Linux, changed the first partition to ext3 and formatted that partition, then deleted the second partition, created an extended partition with one logical partition, changed it to fat32 and formatted that under Linux. I copied the files I wanted to share with my son over to the fat32 partition.

I booted back to Windows (box is named uilleann) and it recognised the fat32 partition and saw all the files I had copied over but Windows didn't see the ext3 partition, just as I had hoped.

My son has it down at his place now. He had to re-install Windows XP again (he bought a newer, faster hard drive) and go through somebody in India in order to get it registered with Microsoft again.

What a PITA Windows XP is. Each tiny piece of hardware added seems like you have to call India again.

Anyhow, he should be copying the files over to his box now and copying all our recording projects onto the usb drive so that we each have a copy and a backup of all our music stuff for our band, Naomi's Fancy.

Hopefully, I can get down to his place this weekend and pick it back up. I am building a Linux only workstation named tinwhistle and I need some files to save me a bunch of download time (I plan on Gentoo, single boot on tinwhistle) which will have the same CPU and memory as uilleann, but with a tv tuner card and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card (much quieter in noise than the SBLive I have in uilleann as it works better for games) and an M-Audio Delta 1010 outboard sound card, hopefully running Ardour for my recording needs or with Audacity, depending on the stability/usability of Ardour.

Anyhow, enough rambling and dreaming.

Sorry I can't help more. Maybe somebody will see this that has actually used the 5GB Iso Slim in Linux and give you a better answer.

Good luck!