[nflug] nice, real nice

[Brad Bartram]

I buy a lot of external drives on a monthly basis and I've never found
too many good things about the FreeAgent series of drives anyway.  Not
a big loss.  FWIW, I tend to buy mostly WD MyBook series drives or
Maxtor externals.  Haven't had any problems with either on any of the
operating systems I've used them on (Windows, Linux, OS X).

brad

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Russell Harrington
<russellharrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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