[geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris 10

velociraptor velociraptor at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 07:53:41 CST 2006


On 11/5/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >From: James Fogg <James at jdfogg.com>
> >
> >What filesystem was on the USB attached disk?
> >
> >Was it FAT/Windows or something more familiar to Unix?
>
> It was (and still is) a filesystem usable by WinXP - the drive
> came formatted, and has some "single-touch backup" software
> included, I've never had occasion to reformat it, so I assume
> (but am not sure) it was FAT.

I'd guess FAT.  I have not found any info on NTFS support under Linux.
 Of course, this begs the question of how the beast handles >2GB
files.  Have you tested that Lionel?

=Nadine=



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