[ubuntu-za] Seagate support for Ubuntu

[Hannes Coetzee]

> I purchased a Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA internal drive from Chaos 
> Computers last month and formatted it NTFS thinking this would be a safe 
> option. Needless to say, within weeks, my data was corrupted resulting 
> in the loss of valuable information. I managed to retrieve some of the 
> lost data using photorec, but am now stuck with the problem of not 
> trusting the drive or the combination of the drive and Ubuntu. There is 
> absolutely no support for Ubuntu from Seagate,
> 
> This is the support response;
> 
> Seagate Support wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> There is no Unbutu version of Seatools. You would have to test the 
> drives on a windows machine.
> 
> 
> ref:00D0hhzl.50036GX0w:ref
> 
> 
> How can I insure this doesn't happen again? Should I take the drive back 
> to the shop?
> 
> Please help,
> 
> DRL.
> 

Don't use NTFS. Take a look at http://www.fs-driver.org/

Hannes