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Can I use an EXTERNAl hard drive?

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zibiaozhang

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HI, I have Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1 server, I am thinking buying USB external hard drive for the machine. but I am not sure if the server can use it, anybody has any idea how to use USB on such a machine? Thanks.
 
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I haven't any experience with USB device on a Unix system, but I'd say just plug in the drives and see if you can see it when listing the disks. Create device files and off you go.

Regards,
George
 
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