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- Philluminati, on 04/18/2008, -0/+13forgo doesn't mean what you think it means. This statement
"It seems that Seagate has opted to forgo compatibility for anyone other than Linux users and that’s a real shame, as I have always been a satisfied Seagate user"
means they'll only support Linux users. It's probably not what you meant, based on the title. - db113456, on 04/18/2008, -1/+9Links to some sources would be useful. At this moment, i am not even sure about what you are trying to say. The drive being formatted for NTFS is usually not a problem for Linux. If the drive is not SATA or PATA compatible and needs a software driver, well that would reduce it's usefulness to everyone , not just Linux. So please elaborate, and yes fix the linguistic error pointed to by Philluminati.
- pinetree, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5This has to be the most worthless mad rant I've seen in a long time. What's even sadder is that Mad Penguin actually published it.
"Luckily for those of you who purchased one of these drives..." WHAT DRIVES? A model number? Anything? Too busy getting red in the face to give any coherent details?
"...the drives in question have apparently been preformatted as NTFS..." Oh no, whatever will we do? These drives are clearly irreparably damaged (sarcasm). Why does it matter to you that the drive is preformatted? If you run Linux, you're going to format the drive whether it comes with NTFS or whether it's not formatted at all, so what difference does it make? If anything, preformatting it will help them catch defects before it leaves the factory, so what's the harm?
"While this may not really be an issue for Mac owners..." Why? Macs can use NTFS via NTFS-3g. Linux can use NTFS via NTFS-3g. Why are Mac owners supposed to be less impacted?
I'm a Linux user, and I don't get this "article" at all. - geoken, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4The only reason seagate is doing this is because they probably have this conversation 4282 times a day;
Raving lunatic: "WTF, I just bought and installed your ***** HD and it isn't showing up in MyComputer"
Seagate: "Did you format the drive?"
Raving lunatic: "What the hell is 'format'!"
Personally I could care less. A NTFS formatted drive is just as good as a blank drive to me and at least it keeps my cousin/uncle/father-in-law/brother-in-law/etc. from phoning me about the new hard drive they just bought which "doesn't work". - frontporsche, on 04/18/2008, -2/+4From the article, I'm guessing that Seagate is simply doing a little hand-holding for Microsoft users by preformatting drives with NTFS. Why would a *nix user care what might or might not be pre-loaded on a drive?
- z0mbie2099, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2Yaay, another company to boycott. *****.
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