There is also a new version of the firmware that is suppose to support NTFS, I haven't worked with it which is why I said, depending on the firmware version. Unslung is a 3rd party update to the firmware, from what I have read a really good one. It opens up lots of little toy's for the NSLU2. For the money, the unit does exactly what I need. I wish LinkSys would embrace Unslung instead of fighting it. Don S. Quoting John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com>: > On 4/26/07, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > > > > > Be advised that if you get one of these units when you connect your drive > > to it > > , depending of the firmware version, it will re-format the drive to a > > linux > > exp3 device. You won't be able to connect the USB drive to your Windows > > box and > > access it again. > > > > Not true - I just unslung a stock NSLU, moved one of the externals to my > windows box and installed ext2 drivers for winodws ( > http://www.fs-driver.org/). Got my data off. The unslung NSLU now has one > of the original drives (original data intact) and a usb printer (which I can > print to from any computer on my network) > > As off-line storage I like it beats tape drives, but as a device that I > > could > > run a database against or any high access application, not so much. > > > > Don S. > > > > >