Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, David S. wrote:
>
>> I am thinking about getting an ESATA ExpressCard for use with Ubuntu
>> 9.04. Can anyone make a recomendation as to which one to use? Or
>> should any of them work?
>
> Sorry, can't help. I haven't used eSATA (or however it's capitalized).
>
>> Is there anyway of knowing what hardware will/will not work with
>> Linux? This has been a question on my mind for a while (ever since I
>> started using Ubuntu), although most of the hardware I currently have
>> works. I may be looking to upgrade some of them and want to know what
>> the best way of finding out. I do like using Newegg and some other
>> online stores, but I dont want to order something and then find out I
>> need to return it because of lack of support.
>
> Google for |hardware_model_or_series (linux OR distro OR
> related_distros)|. That should turn up stories of what people had to do
> to make that hardware recognized, anywhere from "the OS picked it up and
> it worked for years" to "it ate all my data and didn't say boo".
>
pcidatabase.com is useful if it's a PCI device. Unfortunately it usually
requires you to know exactly what it is you will be getting, or already
have it installed.
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