A couple days ago, someone asked about Linux and Western Digital external hard drives. This is a response, sort of. I am posting my notes on how I got a Seagate Free Agent drive to work with Linux. I hope this will help with other drives. I make no guarantees.
We purchased a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive. Unfortunately, Seagate only supports it with Windows and Macs. It worked find with Windows XP. On the Linux box, that was a different story. Research indicated that the drive was already formatted into NTFS. I knew this would not be an issue as people mount NTFS partitions all the time on Linux. I went to the site www.linux-ntfs.org. I found just about all I needed on that site. I found this page especially helpful: www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount. It had some good instructions: First of all you need to download FUSE from Sourcefourge. Then: tar zxvf fuse-2.7.0.tar.gz cd fuse-2.7.0 ./configure Make make install Then you need to install ntfsprogs: tar zxvf ntfsprogs-2.0.0.tar.gz cd ntfsprogs-2.0.0 ./configure --enable-fuse-module Make make install This installed the ntfsmount command, which I did not have before. But I wasn't quite finished. Apparently the issue with this drive has to do with power management. I ran the command hdparm -Z to "disable Seagate auto-powersaving mode." After that, I simply ran the command: ntfsmount /dev/sda1 /media/FreeAgent_Drive Then, I was ready to go. I could get to the hard drive through the GUI or the command line. Chris Baker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] systems administrator Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
