Western Digital’s documentation is very explicit that it, Western Digital, knows nothing about Linux. It only mentions that there may exist “generic” drivers. Not aware of that problem – it is not mentioned on the box – I bought a WD “My Passport” external hard disk. I plugged it into my computer running Ubuntu Linux and immediately saw that Linux could read and write the disk. So I would not have to reformat the disk, as do the poor Mac users. The only question was to find appropriate, reliable...