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external floppy drive

I'm running Mandrake 10 on my Toshiba A30 laptop. I need an external 3.5" floppy drive (USB) for school stuff and small files. I can get a Lacie USB external drive for quite cheap. The guy at the store said it should work in Linux, but he doesn't know how. Any advice?
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