On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:20 PM, James <wireless@(protected):
> 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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> gentoo-user@(protected)
>
>

Did you try to patch the kernel with that auto shutdown thingy? Btw,
there is a pretty good ext2 driver for windows. Thats how i backed up
my last system :)

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Akseli Ollikainen
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