[CS-FSLUG] Seagate sata hdd's and Linux

[Timothy R. Butler]

I don't think you are going to find another drive, in my experience, that
will be better than a Seagate. I've used Seagate SATA's with Linux, btw.

I normally just use the distro's own partitioning tool. You could always
go with cfdisk, though... I'm not sure why QTParted wouldn't work --
typically drives are ready to go out of the box.

   -Tim

On Fri, July 8, 2005 11:33 pm, Nigel Ridley said:
> I found this problem on the kanotix forums and a link to the reason for
> the problem:
>
> http://forum.kanotix.net/viewtopic.php?t=9375
> http://home-tj.org/m15w/
>
> "It's basically because of faulty SATA implementation of the affected
> seagate hard drives combined with standard-compliant but peculiar
> behavior of silicon image controllers."
>
> Anyway, not wanting to take any chances I am thinking about a Samsung
> hard drive -- any thoughts?
>
> BTW. What is the best Linux tool for putting a partition table on a
> *new* hard drive?
> I ask because it has happened to me in the past that QTParted can't
> handle *new* drives with no partition table on them.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel
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