Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
|
Kernel (uname -r):
|
2.6.20-gentoo-r3
|
|
Distribution:
|
Gentoo 2..6.1
|
[ Log in to get rid of this advertisement]
Purchased as a quick'n'dirty backup drive as a colleague had recommended a lower capacity model some time ago. The drive works flawlessly, easily re-partitioned to suit you needs. I've carved this one up in two, 5oGB for use with windows and formatted with fat32, the rest with a reiser filesystem for Linux.
The only con I can come up with is that the drive spins down too fast resulting in a small delay on accessing/mounting/umounting it, but that's not a problem for me.
Coupled with a few simple udev rules to create /dev/seagate-vfat and /dev/seagate-reiser so that I can mount the partitions without looking through kernel messages for the correct entries in /dev
This is my favourite new toy!
|
