[gentoo-user] FreeAgent USB drive

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I have a FreeAgent(Seagate) usb drive, that shows up as /medea/sdb1
in Konqueror. I can go thru it via Konqueror and see all of the files
(dll .exe, docs etc) but I cannot cd into the directories and sub
directories and see any files. 

The kernel I use (2.6.24-gentoo-r7) has NTFS r/w enabled and fat fs too.
It works fine with most usb/ntfs devices. I also have ivman installed
as well as dbus and hald.

I've googled and folks talk about FreeAgent usb drive not being too
linux friendly. The advise ranges from reformat the drive to patching
the kernel to deal with it "auto-shut-down".

I'd be curious how folks on this list use a free agent usb drive with Gentoo.

If possible, I'd like to keep it with it's windows features and be able
to move it seemlessly between doz and gentoo system, as a general purpose
backup/restore/archive drive.


Ideas and comments are most welcome.


James

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