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Stories · 3

  1. Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor

    News · Court · · posted by simoniker · from the knows-too-much dept. · 585 comments
    deweller writes "According to a story at MacCentral, Hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC is seeking a court injunction to prevent a former employee, Pete Goglia, from going to work for Western Digital Corp. any time in the next 2 years, saying Goglia knows too much about Seagate's hard-drive reading and writing technology to work for a competitor."

  2. Panther Eats FireWire 800 Drives

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the oooo-scary-data-loss dept. · 60 comments
    the_webmaestro writes: "Apple has announced that Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) may cause corruption with external FireWire 800 drives (anything with an Oxford 922 chip). Fortunately for me (unlike the poor souls who've already had problems), I guess I'm glad I ordered a lowly a 250GB Firewire 400/USB2.0 Combo Drive..." maccw reports that Firewire 400 customers are also reporting problems, as detailed from this Wired story.

  3. Cluster Harddrive Using Firewire?

    Ask · Hardware · · posted by Cliff · from the cluster-fsck dept. · 23 comments
    Ironstorm asks: "Recently I've started to see Firewire harddrives being sold from companies like Maxtor & Western Digital and now I'm pondering firewire storage solutions for high-availability clusters. Does anyone know if it would be possible to share a harddrive between two cluster nodes on a Firewire bus? Or have a node mount another node's Firewire drive if the other node has failed?"