On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Randall Shimizu wrote:
Here is a alternate method. I do not own a Seagate Freeagen Pro, so I have not tried this.
Well, going back then to the original question, if all this hackery is made necessary by bugs in the firmware, then I would not recommend the FreeAgent Pro drive.
I have a different Seagate external drive (one of these: http://decenturl.com/seagate/seagate-pushbutton) and it works just fine under Linux, including its sleep function. After ~10 minutes it does indeed spin down and sleep, but Linux doesn't care. Three days later, I can access its mount point and it will spin back up and pick up right where it left off. This works via both Firewire and USB 2.0.
The only bad thing about the drive is that the on/off switch is "soft" like in an ATX case. And if power is cut to the drive, it stays off until someone goes and physically pushes the button again. Not good for unattended use!
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