[nzlug] Iomega Desktop HD

[Nick 'Zaf' Clifford]

tich at clad.co.nz wrote:
> There is an Iomega Desktop USB 2.0 Hard Drive 1.0 terrabyte available
> for a bit over $500 +GST.  Does anyone have any experience using one of
> these or a similar device under linux?
>   

Can't say I've had direct experience with them, but they appear as a
standard USB device, officially Mac OSX is supported, so thats usually a
good sign for Linux, and the filesystem format is (believe it or not)
FAT32! To tell you the truth, I didn't even realize Fat32 could go that
big.

It consists of two physical disks in a JBOD config, appearing as a 1TB
drive.

Its a good bet that Linux will be able to read/write to it. Accessing
any configuration, etc options relating to the RAID however is up in the
air (their may not even be the functionality to access that from
Windows, so it may be a mute issue).

Nick