<div dir="ltr"><div>If it's not showing up as a drive, check that the kernel sees it as a normal healthy disk with "dmesg", looking for a new drive being connected and your model number. Might see the disk but not mount it having exfat or some other FS microsoft-y it can't read.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:19 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">that is strange. The drive is 8 years old. I guess it was lightly<br>
used. Is there such an animal as a hardware tester so i can see what's<br>
up with it?<br>
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 5:15 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thanks Brian.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 4:05 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss<br>
> <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > The answer is almost certainly yes, but my biggest piece of advice for<br>
> > you on that would be not to store anything on it that you don't have<br>
> > very well backed up. The Seagate 2tb drives are terrible. I have a<br>
> > 100% failure rate on them after about 2 years give or take, and I've<br>
> > been through a couple dozen on them and the word on the street is that<br>
> > my experience isn't strange.<br>
> ><br>
> > Brian Cluff<br>
> ><br>
> > On 5/20/20 12:21 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> > > I'm getting a used 2TB drive and I can't find anything about linux<br>
> > > compatibility. It is a Seagate Goflex home. My dad says the model<br>
> > > number is:<br>
> > > bybap1-520<br>
> > > or<br>
> > > pk:pgaw-duzm-nnwp-kybw<br>
> > > but after about 15 minutes of searching I've given up. Does anyone<br>
> > > know off hand if it will work?<br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
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