On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: >> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level >> formatted from factory :-) > > Unless it's external.
Barracuda disks are not usually external. Seagate uses fancy names for external disks such as GoFlex, BlackArmour, RedColibri, BuyThis and so on... :-D > Then it will be clogged up with Windows stuff that it will relinquish > only very, very reluctantly. I still haven't got my latest buy > functioning properly: it almost is, but insists that it is read only. > %^*£". In despair I set the permissions at 777 and is _still_ insists > that it is read only. :-( (Nothing on it is even vaguely confidential > or personal.) Though it will write distros but not md5sums. I never buy those pre-boxed disks... I prefer to get an external USB/ Firewire case and put an internal disk on it, they're far better and easily to upgrade than the others ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.25.15.49...@gmail.com
