Does this work with Linux? I'm assuming it will be read just as any external USB drive, but wanted to check since only Windows and Mac were mentioned
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I would have to believe that it will but I have not had an opportunity to do so, the manufacturer I am sure can answer that for you.
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This depends entirely on your host system (Linux?) or the filesystem on the drive. Any modern Linux kernel will have USB support available. I have used these devices many times with Linux to do data recovery on windows filesystems.
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I'm sorry to ask a question on your question but did you every purchase the device and try it on Linux? I was also curious.
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I can't confirm for Linux, I use mine on an older Mac Pro running MacOS-X 10.7.5. Works well for me.
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I haven't tried it with linux, but the windows driver will not work, you have to find one for linux
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Are you using it for the primary boot drive, as in installing MAC Leopard to the drive, or just using it as a USB flash drive to store files and stuff to? For the former I have no reason to believe that I would not work however I have only tried it with Linux, not saying much cause Linux can be installed on anything. As for the later case the file system that the drive is formatted to is what makes the difference, unless Apple has some global external memory limit that I don't know about.That's a long answer to say there is not a reasonable reason that it would not work.
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I don't have a Mac but it works immediately with both Windows and Linux machines. Neither needs any extra software to be loaded. I would be surprised if it didn't work with Macs.
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I've used this in Windows XP/7/8. And I think my friends that I've used it in is a Linux machine. I also use this for my cars stereo, which has USB input. Reads as any plug and play flash drive. Shows up as removable storage.
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Every piece of hardware, including USB devices require drivers to operate, and these are usually OS dependent. However, the "U" in USB usually means universal. I have used my interface converter with several versions of Windows and Mac OS, and the device has worked seamlessly without necessity of installing additional drivers. I cannot say for certain if the thing would work with other platforms. I suppose if the platform is old enough, there could be an issue if there are no driver updates available.
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Drive CD comes with the card. I put it in a computer running Linux Mint, and Linux found the driver immediately, I didn't have to do anything. My guess is that you, too, will just "plug and play".... Let me know
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I don't have a windows laptop with which to test, but I've never seen a USB hub like this that had an OS requirement (the same cannot be said of USB devices in general). Plugging it in is all that was required for my Mac, and my windows virtual machine could also use the devices plugged into the hub without any special work.
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Hi, I actually when I bought it I did not check its Mac supported, whereas I wanted to use it on Windows and Linux.So I repartitioned it with NTFS to use on these OSes. But it had HSpace partition, so it is compatible with all Macs
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This will work fine just like any other external USB drive. If you don't want it formatted as NTFS, it can be easily formatted as FAT32 or whatever your need is.
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You can read drives by hooking them into your desktop computer, but to WD documentation the format is native to Linux OS, not Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
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Yes, so far this works with any pc I've thrown it against. Xp, win 7 and 8 work fine. I have yet to try it with a Linux box or Mac.
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I use a WD portable drive and it works well with this USB hub. (I did not try with more than one external drives.)
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Hi, I have tried with Win XP, WIn 7, and Linux. IT should pretty much work with any OS except maybe the very old which do not support or have trouble detecting USB connections.Regards.
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Yes, but unfortunately not with Linux. If anyone has found the drivers and software that works under Linux, please post.
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I've mainly used it with my pc but per your question I did try in on my Imac and it recognized the drive and it works (I did have to plug in from the back though, doing it through the keyboard did not work)...my Imac is a 2009 os x running 10.6.8..it also works on my 2011 mbp. As a reader does the job just fine, never used it to burn anything though...hope that helps