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Written by Daniel
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Saturday, 08 December 2007 12:04 |
Latest drives show no visible means of support
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 07 December 2007, 7:30 AM
The Inquirer
SEAGATE'S latest batch of drives, the ironically titled Free Agent series are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux.
As an INQ reader, who owns two 320s and 500s (USB2) pointed out to us, Seagate designers must have been working overtime to manage that feat. Linux runs his ancient Arcnet card, the latest DVB-c/s/t cards and even the more obscure studio-grade A/D/A converters. It cannot manage the latest from Seagate.
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.... MORE Comments in the Forums
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