External USB NTFS drive

[Steven Vollom]

lanzen wrote:
>> If the drive is Seagate or Maxtor, they preconfigure the drives for
>> Windows and Apple/Mac.
>>     
>
> I've just recently got a seagate sata /300 (500Gb - slurp). On the box
> it says: compatible with Linux. I must say it is. Unfortunately - well,
> not so much - I didn't formatted it as NTFS so I can't say what would
> have happened in that case.
>
>   
I just purchased a Maxtor One Touch III incl. Firewire800.  They are
pre-configured to XP or Vista or Mac only.  I have heard I can solve the
problem any, but haven't so far.