Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-27 Thread Lord Sporkton
2008/4/25 Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Lord Sporkton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also thought it would be rather absent minded to have included

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-27, Lord Sporkton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally i feel it is wrong to include a controlling mechanism for a feature that is not included. I feel if i have to go so far as to rebuild my kernel, then i can certainly take a few more steps to add mount_ntfs. Sounds like an easy

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-27 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Ivo van der Sangen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be a good idea to note the lack of support for NTFS filesystems in a GENERIC kerel in mount_ntfs(8)? If it is appreciated I will send a diff. [...] But then it has to be removed *when* NTFS becomes a part

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-26 Thread Ivo van der Sangen
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:03:13PM -0400, jmc wrote: --- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:32:37PM -0700]: ---7 I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to an XP home system [ ... ] # mount -t ntfs -r /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb2 mount_ntfs: /dev/sd0i on

ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread Lord Sporkton
I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to an XP home system I am trying to now attach this drive to my OpenBSD server I get the following error however im unsure what im doing wrong also, why does it show as a scsi device, its a pata drive in a usb enclosure? I

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread jmc
--- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:32:37PM -0700]: ---7 I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to an XP home system [ ... ] # mount -t ntfs -r /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb2 mount_ntfs: /dev/sd0i on /mnt/usb2: Operation not supported you don't say if7you're using

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread Lord Sporkton
My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also thought it would be rather absent minded to have included mount_ntfs if support was not included, thus since i had mount_ntfs, i assumed i had support for it. I will look into adding ntfs

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-24, Lord Sporkton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following error however im unsure what im doing wrong also, why does it show as a scsi device, its a pata drive in a usb enclosure? USB mass storage devices use the SCSI protocol in a USB wrapper. The bridge chip in the enclosure

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread jmc
--- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:17:16PM -0700]: --- My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also thought it would be rather absent minded to have included mount_ntfs if support was not included, thus since i had