User Guide

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Miscellaneous
LINUX COMPATIBILITY AND CONFIGURATION
The DL3™ is platform independent, capable of being run with 100%
compatibility on most systems. For optimal Linux or Unix based system
compatibility, we recommend using at least the Linux 2.6.31 Kernel (released 9
September 2009), which implemented the xHCI specification for USB 3.0.
Although older versions should work, they might run in USB 2.0 mode, which can
be significantly slower.
You can check your kernel version by typing the following command in the
terminal:
# uname -r
Because there are so many distribution versions of linux, we cannot guarantee
that every version of every operating system has been tested. The following
distributions have been tested and found working with ext4 file system
formatting:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
• CentOS 6.5
• Debian 7.4
• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 14.04
In most newer distributions the drive should automatically mount. To format the
drive, first enter terminal, then list detected hard disks using
# fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'
Your configuration may vary. For this example, we'll assume the disk is at
/dev/sdb
You will then type…
#fdisk /dev/sdb