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

[Fred A. Miller]

On Saturday 09 July 2005 12:33 am, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 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."

I think the controller on that hard drive is VIA......better check that.

> Anyway, not wanting to take any chances I am thinking about a Samsung
> hard drive -- any thoughts?

'Doable, but NOT the quality of Seagate.....I have the Seagate 200G SATA.

> 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.

Use Yast during the install...........oh, oh. You're not using SUSE. ;)

Fred

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