External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:31:53 -0700 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Ryan Coleman
Rem, You cannot write to NTFS using the stock driver. Please use Google to search / do research on the drivers out there; writing to NTFS is a VERY dangerous thing. Your best bet is to just do your work over the network instead of directly over USB from a Windows-based node. Also, read the

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 08/21/10 09:36, Ryan Coleman wrote: Rem, You cannot write to NTFS using the stock driver. Please use Google to search / do research on the drivers out there; writing to NTFS is a VERY dangerous thing. Your best bet is to just do your work over the network instead of directly over USB

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Rem P Roberti
Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 21 August 2010 13:46:43 Rem P Roberti wrote: Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Saturday 21 of August 2010 20:03:02 Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2010 13:46:43 Rem P Roberti wrote: Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:44:48 -0700 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Duly noted. I shall definitely read the man page, but would also appreciate a heads up on the dangers involved in writing to NTFS. A Google search for 'NTFS writing dangerous' turns up quite a few links. -- Bruce

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Philipp Lengemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:24:14 +0300 schrieb Elias Chrysocheris elias...@cha.forthnet.gr: On Saturday 21 of August 2010 20:03:02 Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2010 13:46:43 Rem P Roberti wrote: Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет:

Re: External HD

2010-08-21 Thread Jason Leschnik
Is there much Data on the disk?, it may be worth while moving to FAT32 or a FS that is shared by both (If your happy to live with the 4GB max file size). On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Philipp Lengemann phl...@arcor.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sat, 21 Aug

Re: usb external hd question

2008-02-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:14 +0100 Miguel Giral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, a side question. When attaching a geli provider, i get this: GEOM_ELI: Device ad4s3.eli created. GEOM_ELI: Encryption: Blowfish-CBC 256 GEOM_ELI: Crypto: software WARNING: Expected rawoffset 14548865, found

usb external hd question

2008-02-26 Thread Miguel Giral
Hi I bought an external usb hd but i can just get FreeBSD (both 6.2 and 7) to recognice it if the drive is switched on and plugged in during system boot up. Case in which i get the drive detected with both partitions i made in it. (da0 da0s1 da0s2) If i switch it on in an already running system,

Re: usb external hd question

2008-02-26 Thread Joshua Isom
On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Miguel Giral wrote: Hi I bought an external usb hd but i can just get FreeBSD (both 6.2 and 7) to recognice it if the drive is switched on and plugged in during system boot up. Case in which i get the drive detected with both partitions i made in it. (da0 da0s1

External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have one external HD: umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): error 22 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error pass0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: WDC WD25 00JB

Re: External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:37:52 -0800 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount /dev/da0s1 /ext this is the slice, dont use it mount /dev/da0s1c /ext this is the raw partition, DONT use c - ever, unless u really (think you) know what you are doing mount /dev/da0s1d /ext bing Always:

Re: External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread perikillo
On 11/22/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:37:52 -0800 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount /dev/da0s1 /ext this is the slice, dont use it mount /dev/da0s1c /ext this is the raw partition, DONT use c - ever, unless u really (think you) know what you are