I realize that most of the people that were experiencing the problems with this drive have already given up by now, but I just got a new iMac and am now running Lion, so I thought I'd give the drive another try (hope springs eternal). It worked fine with the new Seagate software bundle initially, but as soon as the computer went to sleep, there was nothing to prevent the drive from going to sleep anymore. When my Mac woke up, the drive was still shown as mounted, but inaccessible. The finder did not have a hard crash, but was unuseable until I unplugged the drive, at which point everything recovered without the need for a restart.
I'm still puzzled why this one drive has these issues and others do not, or why Seagate tries to solve the problem from the upstream end, instead of fixing the issue from within with firmware that solves the sleep problem internally, from the drive's end of the problem.
A quick search of the net reveals that Seagate has a public relations mess with this drive that is tarnishing it's reputation with consumers. There are very few positive reviews of this drive, and for good reason. Even Windows users report some of the same problems. I'm still dismayed at how this has been handled.
