Seagate Black Armor NAS 440 / 420 with Apple OSX 10.5.8-10.6 is a BAD IDEA!

Heads up to Apple users. We purchased a Seagate Black Armor NAS 440 for use with a multi user environment and found it was incompatible with any 10.5.8 or 10.6 OSX users. This fact was confirmed by Seagate Tier 2 or "Very Hard Problem" (they call it this not me) support office.
We confirmed the tech specs as published by Seagate and unfortunately the development of this product was timed prior to 10.5.8 and 10.6 and has yet to be patched.
After migrating 6 TB of data we discovered the issue, and had to rollback. If Seagate had published the correct tech specs we could have avoided wasting 2 days of work and inconveniencing our users.
Bottom line save yourself the trouble, and do not buy a Seagate NAS if your running OSX in your environment.

Have to agree. And it would take a simple fix (according to the linux/unix geeks on the forums) which seagate doesn't see viable enough to implement. Most of what I read says go WD.

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How did they find out that this was the case?
Did you allow someone to remotely connect to your Mac?
What is the name of this software?
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Francine
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