Hi Juhana, I have a Star Tech external IDE box -- you can put just about any IDE device inside and it connects via USB. I got the cdrecorder to work under Linux/Windows, however, you may find issues with disks of greater than 80GB. Portable is used loosely as the Star Techr requires A/C and can accommodate a 5 1/4" device. Cheers Christopher CUSE On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 19:24, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > Hello. Would any of you know if anyone manufactures a portable > USB disk recorder? It needs to work as standard USB disk so that > I may freely use it in any Linux and in any MS Windows 2000/XP. > Below is what I have found so far: > > Creative, Nomad Jukebox, http://www.nomadworld.com > -Good but requires a proprietary driver > Archos, Jukebox Recorder 20, http://www.archos.com/ > -Records only mp3 and at rate 160 kbps > > I don't understand why Creative always make their products > too complicated: SB Live, Jukebox and all. What's wrong in them? > > OK, I have waited several years for a portable hard disk recorder > to be used in my free sound library project, and it looks like > I never get such a recorder. I don't have money to buy an expensive > portable DAT recorder. Are there other options? Help. > > Best regards, > > Juhana