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On 10/22/2010 11:10 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Should I expect any challenges with these drives to set
them up as Unix partitions (and set up the whole drive as an LVM partition)?
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They look just like any other disk drive, I haven't had a problem
with my seagate.
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Thanks<br>
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The thing to watch out for is drives like some western digitals which
come with an insanely annoying artifical "cdrom" as part of the
drive. It isn't really a cdrom, so it confuses things that
expect it to be one and clutters your desktop with phony icons,
and there is no way I've found to just make it disappear.
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I was leery of the WD drive discription:<br>
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