[ale] external hard drive

[Geoffrey Myers]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Is it a green drive?
> 
> Ie. To save power, by design it powers off after a few milliseconds of non-use?
> 
> I have seen lots of discussion of the problems they have under linux,
> but I don't recall the details.
> 
> Fyi: if you don't address the issue, the drive will die early if it is
> green drive.

Doesn't say anything about being a green drive that I can see on the 
box.  Seagate FreeAgent Desk.  My daughter has the exact same drive 
connected to her mac, never has such issues.

> 
> Greg
> 
> On 1/27/10, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> So, I picked up a 1.5 tb external drive.  I pushed a bunch of data off
>> to it all went well.  Later, I connect the drive up to a couple of
>> different boxes.  Each time, the drive is giving that really scary
>> clicking sound you dread.  I can access the data fine, I don't see any
>> errors being produced.  This thing is brand new, what is with this?  Any
>> reason anyone can come up with why this drive would be making these noises?
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson