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I brought X-Craft Cooler Master 320 GB External Hard Disk. I was working fine ... the HDD. I tried with other computers and laptop (Windows 7, Linux), still not recognized. But, I tried to use it as an Internal ...

* please solve this [1] and support any Operating system (win, macos, linux, bsd, ...) * normalize your wall wart and use a more efficient one as almost required by United States and European Union. * add a kensigton grip to physically protect the device * ...

That's a real pity Cooler Master refuses to get any real support for MacOS (or Linux).
I don't understand why it is not recognizes as a standard usb storage.

Damn thing for a good product with easy hard disk rack.

still no plan to change this ?

thanks

... says that a sata-II seagate disk is supported. Yet by reading messages in this forum I'm not so sure about that. I am planning to use it under XP, Linux, Win98SE, Vista. Thanks for any insight.

... Master product line) seems to behave in a way that needs special treatment compared to other USB mass storage controllers on the market. The Linux kernel acknowledge this with the folllowing comments in the kernel source code: /* * Device SATA8000 FW1.0 from DATAST0R Technology Corp ...

Linux support for this device still seems to be completely flaky almost a year later. I was only able to initialise the device and put an NTFS filesystem on the disk by plugging it into Windows Vista. Afterward it worked ...

Linux is not a supported operating system, it hasn't been so far for this product and so far hasn't been advertised as so, moot point. The last Mac OSX version supported is 10.4.7 (for the moment). When an update is ready, ...

... for this product and so far hasn't been advertised as so, moot point. Interesting the box that came with my older model Xcraft's had a label for Linux 2.6x on the CD. However the moral of this thread? Don't waste your money on Cooler Master ["Moot Point"] they just don't care about ...

Same problem Here.... I have Ubuntu and a macbook under Mac os-x, and nothing works.... 35€ wasted, grrrr... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: ... say to my friend to do so, and I'll scream in all the Mac Os forum and Linux Forum that Cooler Master's Ingeniors are just a bunch of ms-fan-boyz ...

... in this link: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/9959 I don't have an X-Craft, but this trick worked for my other external HD case too. ...

Well, there are a LOT of hardware manufactures that don't say anything about Linux, but their hardware DO work with Linux. It seems that it's happening again, because I did it work here. I just followed what is described in this link: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/9959 ...

Sorry but I don't think Linux is supported:

OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista; Mac OS 9.1 - 10.4.7

Hi I'm trying to mount the hdd in linux without success. the dmesg output: usb 7-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 usb 7-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 usb 7-3: device descriptor read/64, ...