On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:00 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/Seagate+15TB+USB+20+External+Hard+Drive+-+ST315005EXA101-RK/51884336.aspx?navid=155441514
I've played with the 1 TB Seagate drive of that design. It likes to
fall as
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:23:44 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >> It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that
> >> expect it to be one and clutters your desktop with phony icons,
> >> and there is no way I've found to just make it disappear.
>
> What is it really?
It is a thing tha
On 10/22/2010 11:23 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
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>>> The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which
>>> come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as par
Tom Horsley wrote:
> there is no way I've found to just make it disappear.
WD makes a Windows-only utility that removes that functionality.
I agree it is annoying. It adds no value to the drive and makes them
more expensive. The hardware added to provide that functionality is wasted.
LG tried t
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which
>> come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as part of the
>> drive. It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that
>> ex
On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:00:55 -0400
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Should I expect any challenges with these drives to set
them up as Unix partitions (and set up the whole drive as an LVM partition)?
They look just like any other disk drive, I haven
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:00:55 -0400
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Should I expect any challenges with these drives to set
> them up as Unix partitions (and set up the whole drive as an LVM partition)?
They look just like any other disk drive, I haven't had a problem
with my seagate.
The thing to wat
I am looking at 2 USB drives:
http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/MicroNet+1TB+External+USB+20+Hard+Drive+-+TFD1000U/59541813.aspx?navid=155441514
http://www.ecost.com/prod/Storage/External+Storage/Hard+Drives/USB+HDD/Seagate+15TB+USB+20+External+Hard+Drive+-+ST
