Re: Buying a Seagate hard drive? - note this....

elaich <|@|.|> writes:

ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com> wrote in
news:5rv1rvF16r23hU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate's latest
range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to
NTFS.

The problem is that the drive uses power saving technology to shut the
drive down after a period of inactivity. When the drive comes alive again,
it is as a USB1 device rather than a USB device. Windows can handle this:

Seagate's latest drives are surely NOT all usb drives. Is this refering
only to usb drives?

Mac and Linux cannot. Rather than fix the problem, Seagate admits there are

Actually this sounds like a bug in Windows that is being used.


workarounds, but took the easy way out by merely publishing a disclaimer.

The NTFS format is easy to fix, and has no bearing on this problem.

I am envisioning a Linux program that will automatically access the drive
often enough to stop it from going to sleep. Is this feasible?

Sure. Or link the drive identity( eg serial number) to the usb device
number.

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