External floppy drive

[Harvey Ussery]

I need to buy a cheap external USB floppy drive in order to retrieve 
some old files generated on my former Linux box (a Dell) before I got my 
iMac & installed YDL 3.0. (Macs no longer come with floppy drives.)

Anybody in a position to recommend particular brands of external USB 
floppy drives that work with both MacOSX & LinuxPPC? I've been looking 
at the Y-E Data site. They offer a USB floppy drive that 
reads/writes/formats 2HD 1.44 MB floppies (which is what I'm working 
with) and supports MacOS8.6 and higher "as well as other 'Mass Storage 
Compliant' operating systems including many *nix systems."

Or am I making too big a deal of the question? Is an external floppy 
drive such as this likely to be like the typical after-market 
mouse--just plug it in to any OS and it works?

Thanks for elucidation/recommendations.    --Harvey