Seagate FreeAgent Desk External Drive on Mac

[FredP101]

ahh.. well good find.. it worked for me.. perhaps i left out a step when i was frantically trying to erase the drive.

[gd6778]

I've since read elsewhere that:
- TimeMachine may function as an alternate app to wipe the drive and then allow you to rewipe it normally in DiskUtility
- This may be a Mac OS 10.5.7 issue not Seagate.

[FredP101]

What do you mean it might not be seagate? they sell the same exact model for $60 dollars more and say that one is mac compatible, but this one is not?

I have never seen a usb/firewire/esata drive that would ever TRY to prevent you from reformatting it. This drive prevented me from reformatting it, and when I searched seagates forums i found many posts saying it was not mac compatible. That if I wanted a mac compatible drive to get the desk drive MAC version. ($$ChaChing$$)

Seagate was trying to impose a Mac-Tax.

[unconventional]

I tried reformatting for the Mac and got the errors too, but got it to work when I went back and reformatted to MS-DOS (FAT). It works.
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Edit: Yeah ok, nevermind. Works for piddly stuff you don't need and not in ways that actually matter. Damn.

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by FredP101

What do you mean it might not be seagate? they sell the same exact model for $60 dollars more and say that one is mac compatible, but this one is not?

Seagate was trying to impose a Mac-Tax.

My feelings exactly! This cements my resolve never to buy a Seagate product again.

[datbates]

I figured out that it was only the end partition that failed format, so in Disk Utility I just made 2 partitions with the second 1 GB and left the second as free space. The first one worked perfectly. So I just had to loose 1 GB to get it to work nicely. Whatever...

[icemanjc]

Originally Posted by lbj

This stunt alone will insure I never buy a Seagate external. For any reason. Ever.
Way to go Seagate...

That's why I stick with Western Digital. They have never failed me once and they are cheap. Plus I think they give a one year warranty in which they will replace the hard drive once you send it in (heard this from other experiences from friends).

[westAD]

anyone having a problem with the drive not mounting after a few weeks?

It's been formatted macOS journaled and works for a bit, but eventually it won't be recognized and I have to go through several rounds of restarting, unplugging and plugging back in to get it to mount.