question regarding mounting the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive

[Tim]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:23 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this
> rather than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?

Perhaps some of the options they listed?  (e.g. nosuid, nodev, and so
on, and so forth.)  Though I tend to agree, that they're better off
letting it auto-mount, and put any special options in an auto-mounting
rule.  Putting hard mounting rules in fstab for a removable device comes
back to bite you when it's turned off or not plugged in.

One problem with the external Seagate drives is that they power down
after being idle for a while, and there's nothing you can do about that
unless you're using them in Windows (there's a temporary solution with
their software, which turns them always-on for that session, but doesn't
permanently reprogram the drive enclosure to always behave that way).
Another is the SMART tools won't talk to the drive.

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