Works a treat. Simply plugged it in, edited /etc/fstab and it has worked ever since. I can even switch it off and back on again later without problems. The one slight issue seems to be that it has a power-saving feature which causes it to spin down after an hour of activity (this seems to be an internal feautre, not configurable from Windows or Linux). There was one isolated occurence when it had been idle overnight and I couldn't access the drive. Switching it off and on seemed to fix the problem, except that the drive reappeared as /dev/sdb1 rather than /dev/sda1. However this was an easily fixable minor annoyance and has not been reproduced since.

I would highly recommend this drive: it's the only piece of hardware I've ever had working on Linux straight out of the box.

USB plugged recognized and updated in fstab by itself and places an icon on the desktop.

Knoppix detects the drive and mounts it at /dev/uba. Fstab is updated to show the partitions.

SuSE 9.3 Professional has problems.

Since I have an external zip drive at /dev/sda4, SuSe mounts the Maxtor at /dev/sdb. Modules usbcore and usbserial are loded on boot, but the drive needs module uhci-hcd. Modprobe uhci-hcd loads the module. After a few seconds, the Linux partition shows up. Need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf to add a rule to load the module.

Having problems with ntfs partition. Used cfdisk to make the partition, and ntfsprogs to format (for the wife's laptop). Winxp, or Dell Inspiron, seems to have problems partitioning and formating. When the partition is made and formated using Knoppix, her laptop works ok with it for one or two boots, then looses everything in re ntfs.

Looks like there is now kernel support for the OneTouch button. Have yet to try it, but will build 2.6.14.3 and see how it flies.

If it worls as planned, it has the potential to make a nifty backup device for the SOHO set who don't have a local admin around to stab the keyboard (or those who run headless servers) and make things go, making it a lot easier to train office staff. The ultimate PHd backup device.

Have not tried the one touch.

I have used it with Slack 10.1; SuSE 9.3 and 10, Ubuntu as well. Slack finds it during the install as did SuSE. Don't remember if Ubuntu did as well.

Be sure to RTFM on USB storage devices if you build your own kernel.

No problems mounting, formatting, reading or writing to this disk. However, when reading large amount of datas (most of the time, populating playlists in XMMS/amaroK), the application hangs, and enters an uninterruptable I/O sleep mode, which blocks the device, and cannot be killied, even by kill -9.

The disk is still very much usable, but it's very annoying as restart is required if the problem occurs, and it makes it impossible for me to use amaroK.

I have not used much time to find a sollution to this problem yet, so it might exist, though I find most likely it's a bug in the drivers.

Also, I have not been able to put the button on the drive to use, would be nice if possible.