Seagate Free Agent Pro 750/Leopard Incompatible?

I have been trying to use a Seagate Free Agent Pro 750 (purchased off the shelf at Costco) as a Time Machine backup drive. Leopard is unable to format this disk as anything other than FAT32 (which cannot be used for Time Machine). I spent about 2 hours on the phone with Seagate tech support, and finally returned the drive. I got another, duplicate unit, and repeated the experience (except this time I used Seagate's online chat tech support instead of the phone). I tried this with 4 different machines (2 G4 12"s, a Macbook and a Macbook Pro), and with both the firewire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces (the Free Agent has a replaceable interface module that I switched out to try both ways).
Is this a known incompatibility? Anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix?
Thanks!

Hi there,
I have the exact same hard drive that I bought at Costco and think I experienced the same error as you did. You probably got some file formatter error using disk utility? This issue is known and there is an easy workaround. Here is the Gizmodo link to the solution:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/leopard-disk-utility-format-issue-screws-with-t ime-machine-but-theres-an-easy-fix-316573.php
Please let us know if this solves the problem you are experiencing. The solve involved creating 2 partitions, reformatting, then combining the partitions again.

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