View Options on External hard drive

Hi, I have a external hard drive maxtor ot3 conect via firewire when i have tiger i give size and view options and all work fine, but when i try on leopard the the size and view option like list and icons are always the same i adjust size and select always open on (icon - list) view, but when i eject and connect again all the adjustment are lost, is that a leopard issue? in tiger dont happend... or i dont know how to do it, please i really appreciate some help because is really bad have to change the size and view every time i open a folder

Thanks for your quick response. I had a look at your discussion... I tried it on a Windows machine and I thought that was compatible with ExFAT?
Therefore I need to attempt to use my external hard drive with a machine that boasts OS X 10.6.5 or above and then it should work?
Thanks

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