Looking to add permanently mounted USB drive

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:00:55 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> Should I expect any challenges with these drives to set
>> them up as Unix partitions (and set up the whole drive as an LVM partition)?
>>      
> They look just like any other disk drive, I haven't had a problem
> with my seagate.
>    

Thanks

> The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which
> come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as part of the
> drive. It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that
> expect it to be one and clutters your desktop with phony icons,
> and there is no way I've found to just make it disappear.
>    

I was leery of the WD drive discription:

http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/Western+Digital+1TB+My+Book+Essential+External+USB+20+Hard+Drive+-+WDBAAF0010HBK-NESN/57614572.aspx?navid=155441514*


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