Adventures In External Media With Kubuntu
My new ASUS X83-VM laptop has a very capable, whisper-quiet 320 GB SATA drive. For some jobs, like storing my photos, that disk simply isn't big enough. It was time to look at external USB media options. Good thing the new machine has five USB 2.0 ports.
After successfully installing Kubuntu (kernel version: 2.6.27-11-generic, 64-bit), I searched all over for information about hooking up an external IDE USB drive to recover data from the 2.5 inch disk out of my dead HP Pavilion laptop. I also thought that a 500 GB Western Digital MyBook might work for photo storage duty. Alas, I couldn't find diddly. There was much speculation, but nothing saying "yes, these things work with Linux."
The solution to my media uncertainty...buy the equipment, plug 'em in, cross fingers and see if they work. My substantial financial risk is your informational gain.
Thus begins the adventure into Kubuntu on ASUS external media.
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