[nflug] nice, real nice

[Russell Harrington]

Well, I'll just be taking my business elsewhere then and I have a feeling
many others as well, its too bad for them.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Erek Dyskant <erek at blumenthals.com> wrote:

> Rob Dege wrote:
>
> >
> > I agree.  What makes it incompatible?
> >
>
> The models affected are the external Free Agent drives.  First of all,
> they're formatted NTFS from the factory, which who really cares.
>
> More to the point, they have a power saving feature that spins the drives
> down after a few minutes of inactivity, however with linux drives, when they
> come back up they only connect with a USB 1.1 rather connection.
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux
>
> Cheers,
> Erek
>
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