Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:17:12AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've lost the beginnings of this thread, but there was a recent story > about Seagate FreeAgent drives being (intentionally?) designed to > *not* work with Linux. > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/065

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-14 Thread andy
Wim De Smet wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being automounted th

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the > > system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I > > have noticed in the last wh

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the > system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I > have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being > automounted the way they used t

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-11-29 Thread andy
andy wrote: Hi all Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my