[Tfug] FYI: Segate 500 GB USB hard drive

[erich]

Let's see:
             I bought one from SWS, and you guessed it: I comes 
pre-formatted for
MS fat 32  (fdisk code b). There's nothing to prevent you from re- 
formatting
it for Linux ext3, (code 83). Keep in mind that some of these default 
formats
won't allow the desired 32 characters in a filename that we're all used to.

                                                                                                              
Erich



earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> 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
>