A Big Backyard...

got the Seagate 160gig external drive hooked up. Took a bit longer than I expected. It just was not being recoginized by the PodBox. I had plugged it into the bottom most USB port and after running through all the troubleshooting in the meager install guide and at their online support site I tried plugging it into the next port up. Same thing, no recoginzation, couple of checks in the Disk Utility application, few more readings of the suppport pages and finally unplugged the drive and plugged it into the topmost USB port. Bingo! Immediately it showed up on the desktop, in the Finder and in the Disk Utility tool. It is in the latter where I reformatted the preformatted FAT32 drive with Mac OS Extended (journaling). This took just a minute or two if that and all was good. Going to have to check into that about the ports, I thought all three on the back of the case were USB 2.0, but maybe since the bluetooth keyboard doesn't have the USB 1 ports they replaced two of the USB 2.0 ports on the back; but why?

Also found out that the Seagate external was also cheaper than its firewire ported brother because it does not have the one button push backup (a requirement for use with pushbutton backup it appears is firewire), this doesn't bother me in the least as I didn't really intend to use it that way and was even feeling a bit like I had this stupid button there on the front of the drive that I wasn't going to use. So somehow I cheaped myself into the drive I really wanted. Let's hope it lives up to the Seagate name in reliability.