[ale] recommendations on external USB drive for Linux, pls

[Jerry Yu]

good to hear. I'll get one and also to find/buy an enclosure which supports
it.

On 11/2/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > interesting. what kind of support in the kernel and os for "SATA II Hard
> > Drive with perpendicular recording technology" ?
>
> I don't think that requires specific OS level support beyond SATA.
>
> The perpendicular part is all self-contained in the drive, and SATA II
> AFAIK is just a faster version of SATA, so that is handled in the
> controller hardware/firmware.
>
> There may be some small issues in hdparm etc. with reporting the
> speed/interface correctly, but that should not impact general use of
> that class drive.
>
> Greg
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