On 2007-12-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This isn't exactly new. They have been Microsoft pals for quite some time. I
> wrote about it in the weekend.
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/12/09/say-goodbye-to-seagate/
>From the above link:
Seagate has many more issues. They preformat their external drives
with a Windows filesystem. This leads to interoperability issues
with a local drives that use a Linux filesystem and the drive
sometimes â??hangs upâ?? on Linux (this aligns with the experiences
mentioned in the new article, which is cited above). I bought my way
into this Seagate mess 2 years ago (300GB), but the Maxtor one I
bought this year is much better (not preformatted either).
I'm curious--when were the commands to format drives removed from Linux?
Last time I installed a new drive on a Linux box, the procedure to deal
with one that wasn't preformatted was exactly the same as the procedure
to deal with one that was preformatted with a Windows filesystem (which
is most of the external drives nowadays):
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sd?
or
mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sd?
or something similar, depending on what filesystem you want to use. Are
you claiming this does not work on Seagate drives, and also did not work
two years ago???
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