I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB hard drive. It is a 2.5" compact disk that you connect over USB. It draws its power from the USB controller. My previous Extern HDDs were all 2.5" laptop drives, for which I bought a USB enclosure. Those devices always worked perfect, as in:
- They were automatically detected
- Partitions/File Systems understood
- Desktop systems would prompt for actions
The typical kernel messages I got for these devices were:
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