[Tfug] FYI: Segate 500 GB USB hard drive

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

I recently bought a 500 GB Segate hard drive from Office Max at a fairly
good price.  I hooked it up to my Ubuntu 9.10 box and it was immediately
recognized.  I copied a few files to it and it unmounted itself.  It was
completely gone with no trace ... including lsusb not seeing it.

I quit 9.10 and booted into Ubuntu 8.04 with the same results.  I then
tried the drive on a box with Mandriva 2010 with the same results.  My
laptop running 8.04 gave the same results.

I returned the drive and got another one.  I tried the new one with the
sme results.  In a moment of desparation I hooked up to my XP box I use
for my MagicJack phone.  It worked fine and was up for a day.  I'm not
sure but I think XP added a few files.  Anyeay, I tried it on the linux
boxes and everything works great now.  It has been up for 4 days on Ubuntu
9.10.  Strange fix but I thought someone else might run into this
situation.

Earl
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