will be installing another HD will I have any problems?

English Hardware
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I am picking up another HArd drive and I aam wondering if there are going to be any problems? like after I boot the comp will OpenSuse see it and configure it automatically or do I need to do anything I am asking because I am planing on installing a different OS so I can try out my wintv-HVR-1600 tv card out I havn’t had any success getting it to work on any Linux Distri that I have tried.

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I read that Seagate have Linux compatibility problem now (Freeagent class) e.g.
Seagate snubs Linux - The INQUIRER
Slashdot | New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux

3

our local supplier sells Seagate Barracuda drives; we have them both as internal hard drives, and external via USB and all have been fine, and I would be happy to buy more;

the ones you mention seem to be the paradoxically named “Free Agent Series”; indeed Seagate are so proud of them they describe them as

Seagate® FreeAgent™
so they should stand out if one were tempted to buy one;

so I guess if one flags the

Seagate® FreeAgent™
; beware currently

4

hmm and of course the HD I already have installed is a seagate and the one that should be ariving today is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ATA100 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive

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If it’s for internal and its ATA, it won’t be pausing to sleep when not frequently accessed, so it should be OK. Sounds like a standard internal HDD.