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synthead

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[solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

I have a Seagate FreeAgent external USB hard drive, and when I plug it into my computer, there aren't any icons for it on the XFCE desktop.  Every other USB storage solution I've used pops up with an icon and regular users can mount them for read/write.  What should I do from here?

Last edited by synthead (2008-04-10 07:31:52)

synthead

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

Scratch that, I rebooted and now it works.  I remember doing a large amount of updates, so perhaps something needed to restart.

dyscoria

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

Have you had your Seagate FreeAgent for a while? If you have, what are your thoughts on it? I'm thinking of getting an external HD and weighing up my options at the moment. Either Seagate or Western Digital seems to be the way to go.

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synthead

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

I absolutely love it.  The case is very elegant and high-quality with a very quiet fan and a small ducting system that seems very effective.  I resized a ~420GB partition with GParted that took a matter of 20+ hours and it got warm, but didn't get hot.  The drive itself is quiet too.  You can hear it seek if you listen to it, otherwise you won't even realize it's on.  Read/write speeds are good too.  Also, it is only on when you plug it into your USB port, where the light awesomely proceeds to do a cool fade-in as it spins up.  It does a fade-out when you unplug it too, along with a sexually intimate throbbing effect when seeking.  The manual even tells you that you can stare at it if you want to!  The power supply is small too, but can combat your power strip for sockets because it sticks out sideways.

The only major complaint I have with it is they really jip you on drive size.  They advertize it as a 500GB, but it's about a 460GB drive.  That's about 8% less!

dyscoria

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

Thanks bud. I think you may have convinced me

My music/film collection is kinda exceeding my laptop hard drive, and the Dell hard drives available for my Vostro are ridiculously expensive due to the unique casing they have...

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synthead

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

I would get it, yeah.  More than others, but you're buying a Seagate ...

brebs

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

Check your transfer speed after its power-saving kicks in

Anyway, a fan is just more noise - buy a fanless model.

synthead

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Re: [solved] Seagate FreeAgent not regognized by HAL

Look at this: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Whitelists_and_Blacklists  Interesting ...

I've never had a problem with the drive suspending.  Didn't do anything to prevent it either.  But on that note, I'm going to be very cautious about Seagate from here ...