So what is this rant all about?
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| l8gravely Apr 18, 2008 11:28 AM EDT |
So what is this rant all about? I've read the article and I have no clue what this guy's panties are in a twist about. Something about Seagate, NTFS and Linux, but who knows? John |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 18, 2008 12:45 PM EDT |
There are enough threads for this post already ... so I'll pick this one. Does this have to do with SATA, IDE, USB-connected backup drives, or ??? I figure a bare drive can be installed in any PC and loaded with any OS that runs on the PC and supports the drive interface (SATA, PATA, SCSI). And if a backup drive with a USB interface includes backup software, I've never seen one that said "Linux compatible" on the box. Wouldn't you just use whatever software you have in your distribution to format the drive and run backups on it? What am I missing? |
| techiem2 Apr 18, 2008 12:49 PM EDT |
USB drives.
1. They are preformatted NTFS (easy enough to get around).
2. The power management is screwy. The drive shuts itself off after some amount of time and drops the USB connection. When it comes back on, it restarts the USB connection as USB1 instead of USB2.
Apparently Windows can handle this but *nix can't. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005886 |
| herzeleid Apr 18, 2008 12:54 PM EDT |
> The drive shuts itself off after some amount of time and drops the USB connection. When it comes back on, it restarts the USB connection as USB1 instead of USB2. Apparently Windows can handle this but *nix can't. *nix can't handle it? LOL I doubt that. I'm sure that with the needed information the linux kernel crew could code up a nice, efficient handler for that. |
| techiem2 Apr 18, 2008 1:08 PM EDT |
hehe. The solution in the comments on that article gave instructions for disabling the power management on the drive so you wouldn't have the issue. Of course, that's not the ideal, but it works. The ideal of course would be Seagate fixing the issue and replacing the defective drives with fully working ones (yes, I count a drive switching modes from USB2 to USB1 on waking up from power management to be a defect). |
| tuxchick Apr 18, 2008 1:30 PM EDT |
This is old news. A drive switching modes from USB2 to USB1 on waking up from power management is definitely a defect. Why would it switch modes at all? It makes no sense. "yay, my throughput rate dropped so low I can't measure it! Yippeee!" |
| number6x Apr 18, 2008 1:45 PM EDT |
Is it changing it's mode or trying to change its USB id? Does the host have to send another Get_Descriptor request and assign a new USB id to the device? There's not enough info in TFA. I'll have to read the article at engadget. I wonder if it could be automounted by drive uuid in fstab and avoid this issue. I will not buy one of these Seagate drives to try and find out. I fell sorry for anyone who got stuck with one. |
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