[ALUG] USB disk drives

[Anthony Anson]

nev young wrote:
> James Bensley wrote:
>> 2009/12/30 Ricky Bruce <rickybruce at gmail.com>:
>>>  I have had an external drive
>>> (seagate i believe) before that gave problems mounting in linux if it
>>> had previously been mounted in windows and then uncleanly removed.
>>
>> Sometime an NTFS drive that has been accessed by Windows can be locked
>> into a read only mode but you can force a read/write session to be
>> established at the time of mounting the drive (see man mount) and also
>> I have had problems mounting a Windows drive taken out of a Windows
>> machine that had gone into hibernation and not been turned on since so
>> the "sleep state" (Dump of the RAM I guess?) was in the root of the
>> drive and simply needed deleting for the drive to become accessible.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
> The drive (I got last year)  worked perfectly under windows XP. It was 
> formatted NTFS.
> 
> The problem under linux was I could not mount it as it did not appear as 
> a drive.  Other drives, such as an older USB external drive and USB 
> memory sticks etc, appear as an icon on the desktop which I can then 
> mount. This did nothing at all, apart from create an entry in, I think, 
> /dev/usb. However I couldn't do anything with it.
> 
> At £90 a go I am reluctant to risk it on the off chance it will work.
> Wouldn't be so bad if I could return it if it doesn't work but I get the 
> impression the shop would say "It says on the box it only works with 
> windows or mac".
> 
Hi Nev - I got a Buffalo 500GB external (USB) drive (IIRC) from Anglian 
Internet around a year ago. This cost about £50.

It worked straight out of the box on the big Debian box, and works on 
the Eee (of which more in another thread).

NTFS was loaded, and it's now ext3.

Even though I formatted it, it still works...

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Tony Anson
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