Seagate Freeagent Pro: hardware that comes with proprietary software

I guess using the installer to "fix" the disk makes sense if you are going to install anyway, but if you just want to setup the disk, it seems the normal method of fdisk/cfdisk and mke2fs (or even gparted/qtparted) would be a tad faster and easier...assuming the user knows such things. Although he does say: [quote] I used Qtparted to re-format the disk to ext3, but then I couldn’t get it to remove the small NTFS partition. [/quote[ Which is rather odd.

Also, why anyone would use ntfs to share files between *nix and windows is beyond me..unless you want the NTFS perms for windows use or need to transfer multi-GB files...I always use fat32 for cross-platform partitions.

This is also a perfect example of why you should do a little research before buying peripherals intended for *nix use. I seem to recall reading about this exact issue sometime in the past couple months...

Yes it was mentioned off a link from LXer:

Quoting:I seem to recall reading about this exact issue sometime in the past couple months...

even more recently: http://bst-softwaredevs.com/howto/articles/Hardware-buy-lase...

It was given as one of the reasons to research current models, not based on previous experience. New ones appear and old ones cease to support Linux.

Quoting:Take the case of Seagate hard drives, they seemed to supported Linux for a long time. That has changed. Save money and grief; confirm everything ...