[SLUG] External hard disc cradle

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> Hi John,
>
> The Maplin SATA USB dock looks fine to me. The fact that it mentions Mac
> and Windows compatibility is a good sign. Generally this kind of thing
> would be supported by generic USB Mass Storage Device drivers, although
> there might be the occasional device that uses special drivers for extra
> features.
>
> The format of the drive should be transparent, so being able to read an
> EXT3 partition will depend on the operating system of the computer you
> connect it to (so you will be able to read it from Linux and Mac OS X but
> not from Windows without special drivers for EXT3)
>
> Cheers,
> Ross.
>
> P.S. I didn't know hard drives these days still had jumpers on them.

Fabulous, thanks Ross.

Maybe I imagined the jumpers.

The only other possible issue is if I set it up as a virtual drive across
two volumes but it was only about 10% full so fingers crossed.

J