[MLUG] [Fwd: New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux]

[Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is just sad.

quoted from /.
"Seagate's Free Agent series of drives are not intended to be compatible 
with the Open Source operating system Linux. The Inquirer reports on the 
problem: an unhelpful power saving mode. 'The problem is to do with the 
power-saving systems on Seagate's latest range of drives and the fact 
that it is shipped already formatted to NTFS. The NTFS is only a slight 
hurdle to Linux users who have a kernel with NTFS writing enabled or can 
work mkfs. But the "power saving" timer is a real bugger. It will shut 
shut the drive off after several minutes of inactivity and helpfully 
drop the USB connection. When the connection does come back it returns 
as USB1 which is apparently as useful as a chocolate teapot.' Via 
Engadget, though, there is a solution!
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/197506725/article.pl 
<http://rss.slashdot.org/%7Er/Slashdot/slashdot/%7E3/197506725/article.pl>


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