External USB hard drive?

[cloverm]

Can someone tell me if I can use this (or similar) external USB hard drive with a Linux box? Anything special I would have to do to get it working?
http://www.pccityusa.com/8054usb20ext.html

[pbharris]

hi cloverm,
yea - that should work just fine (it is usb 1.1 compatible). it will be set up as a USB mass storage and will be accessed as a SCSI drive. hth.

[cloverm]

Thanks, I'll give it a try then. It looks like this would be the fastest and least expensive form of backing up 80 gigs.

[cloverm]

Another question. How can I mirror two (internal) hard drives in Linux?

[pbharris]

hey Cloverm - you can use software based RAID level 1 to do that.
here is a nice doc:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-R...O-4.html#ss4.4