[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]
“Getting an external hard drive for my laptop seemed like such a
good idea when I first thought about it. Seagate have got a dinky
little 750 GB affair, called the Freeagent Pro, with lights that go
up and down when it’s having a bit of a think to itself, so I got
myself one of those. What I didn’t know when I bought it was that
the hard drive came with all sorts of issues related to proprietary
software.“I plugged my new Freeagent Pro into my Thinkpad but the desktop
icon wouldn’t let me into it; I couldn’t get in
with Konqueror either. Qtparted, and Kdiskfree freely admitted that
there was a 750 GB NTFS partition connected by a USB, but rebuffed
all right click efforts to mount it and responded with various
‘error’ messages…”