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

[ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I read the real problem with the drive was in the USB bridge chip, so  
it makes sense.  I normally buy bare drives and try to get decent  
enclosures - Newegg and other reputable folks will normally list the  
USB/FW bridge chip the products are using.

Even this doesn't guarantee immunity, however.  A few years back,  
there was a batch of FireWire enclosures containing a bugged bridge  
chip (Oxford 922) that would cause your drive to "disappear" under Mac  
OS X.  Lots of aftermarket enclosures used this chip, and when OS X  
10.3 came out, the older FW disks simply stopped working.  Apple  
issued an OS patch and Oxford released new firmware that fixed the  
issue.

That said, I bought a 400GB WD "Elements" external USB drive for a  
song this summer, and it's worked on my Mac, my Linux machine and my  
Windows machine flawlessly.  I do prefer Seagate for internal disk,  
but probably won't be purchasing any of their external stuff unless  
they stick to standard bits that work everywhere.

  ryan woodsmall
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On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Daniel Nowlin wrote:
>
> > a chocolate teapot.' Via Engadget, though, there is a solution!
> > http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/197506725/article.pl
>
> Apparently it works fine as eSATA but fails only with USB2, and that  
> problem can be fixed...

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