Chris Baker wrote: > 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.
Why didn't you just reformat it with your favorite filesystem? Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
