On 20 Jan 2008, at 18:45, Gilles Mocellin wrote:

Le Sunday 20 January 2008 19:24:44 Andrew M.A. Cater, vous avez écrit :
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers.

Anyone used this stuff with Debian?
Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it, some for compressed
backups, i.e. squashfs or images, some for regular storage?

Seagate FreeAgent Pro - has issues with spindown and needs this
disabled. Otherwise works fine.

Argh !
My freeagent just died in two weeks.
Permanent bus reset, and finally, I/O errors and no more access to the disk.
I'm not the only one. Theses FreeAgent seems really fragile.

bad experience with LaCie ext drives here

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