Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-09 19:27]: >> You may have seen this report about problems with the latest Seagate USB >> drives with GNU/Linux: >> >> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux >> >> Does anyone know how accurate this is? I've been thinking of getting a >> 500Gb USB drive, and I've tended to use Seagates in the past. I may >> need to think again. What do you reckon? How about Maxtor instead? >> (Yes, I know, Seagate owns them, too; but I don't think the redesign >> has included Maxtors - yet???) > ** end quote [Mac] > > Sounds like the purchase of Maxtor has dragged Seagate down to their > level to me. I've stopped purchasing Maxtor drives because of the high > fallout rate I've experienced. That's based on PATA drives, not SATA, > SCSI or anything fitted into an enclosure of any form. > > As an aside, I can't quite believe that artical actually contained "are > not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux". Personally I > always put the top back on my sauces, so they are rarely left open ;) >
The power saving system is the problem and although it can be disabled, (using something like sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sd[Your device] ) I believe seagate do not accept it as covered by warranty. It is not simply a matter of fomatting the (NTFS) drive. I certainly will not be putting any money seagate (or maxtor) way until further notice! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
