Psicop
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I got here a Seagate FreeAgent drive set to use for Mac and Windows but not unfortunately Linux (kudos to Seagate for ignoring Linux and other OSs). So, what is the command to install this drive in Mint/Ubuntu?
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JohnInSJ
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San Jose, CA | This is a USB drive formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? You would just plug it in, Ubuntu should load it right up. It does for me, anyway.
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donoreo
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It should just show up when you plug it in. If you are questioning why there is no software for Linux on a CD that came with it, that is because you do not need any.
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Psicop
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Yes it picked up but I thought I had to install it like Windows.
Dunno much about how Linux really works in terms of installing drives and such. Maybe I should go to "Linux school for newbies". 
So in Linux I just have to drag/copy files into the drive and that's it, right?
One more question,
Because I have to format and reinstall Windows again due XP SP3 messing up with one of my drives and corrupting the whole system, I need to save Windows files into the external drive via Linux. Now, once I have installed Windows again, can I send those files back to Windows? Will Windows detect them even again?
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jdong
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| said by Psicop  :Yes it picked up but I thought I had to install it like Windows. Dunno much about how Linux really works in terms of installing drives and such. Maybe I should go to "Linux school for newbies". So in Linux I just have to drag/copy files into the drive and that's it, right? That is correct. Any drive that conforms to USB mass storage standards will mount automatically in Linux with no drivers. When a disk "mounts" in Linux it just shows up as a subdirectory of your root (/) directory, most popularly by convention as a subdirectory of /media. Use it just as you would a folder, and make sure to unmount it properly (typically via desktop icon) after you are done, as Linux caches more aggressively than Windows on removable media.
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One more question,
Because I have to format and reinstall Windows again due XP SP3 messing up with one of my drives and corrupting the whole system, I need to save Windows files into the external drive via Linux. Now, once I have installed Windows again, can I send those files back to Windows? Will Windows detect them even again?
Ta.
If you're talking about data files, then yes, that'll work, but entire applications or Windows drivers/libraries probably won't because there is another registration mechanism for those.
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JohnInSJ
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Well, this is funny. I have an (older) free agent desktop 500gb drive. Plugged it into my Ubuntu 8.04 box and.... nada.
Plugged in the I/OMagic 250gb drive. Works. The generic no-name enclosure with an old Maxtor drive - Works...
So, er, turns out you may need »www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/···nd-linux
Plug it into your windows box, disable the sleep timer, and then it should work...
(does that...)
And, er, it's still not mounting. Weird.
Trying it on the linux laptop...
Success! Apparently, you really need to power cycle it if it was mounted and then ejected. But at least it's mounting.
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jdong
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The Seagate nonstandard UMS idling bug should not cause these symptoms. The symptoms of that bug are filesystem corruption and reported IO errors in dmesg or userspace applications after about 10 minutes of idling. In fact, it's been fixed in Ubuntu Hardy by implementing the XP type quirk to ignore the first error coming off a request.
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JohnInSJ
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| I'm using Hardy.
Was seeing:
Power cycling the free agent drive cleared it up. |
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jdong
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| said by JohnInSJ :I'm using Hardy. Was seeing: Power cycling the free agent drive cleared it up. That's odd, seems like it jumped on the bus in a sleeping state.... I guess our quirk needs to also take into account retrying device descriptor reads...
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JohnInSJ
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| Be happy to provide additional debugging if you tell me what to do... I hardly ever use this drive, and never bothered mounting it under ubuntu... it's a windows backup device, and like I said it's at least 18 months old, so who knows if their current drives do this. |
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