On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:35:26PM +0000, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
nev young wrote:
You're missing the point. Linux doesn't recognise it at all. I can't format a drive if the system can't see it.
It may simply be that your Linux distro does not have NTFS support installed. have you checked this?
Unlike my older USB external drive that creates a device /dev/sdd1 on the desktop which I can then mount.
Not surprising because that was probably FAT rather than NTFS.
No, really, you're missing nev's point. What filesystem is on the drive is irrelevant if the raw devices nodes aren't even created. Getting /dev/sdd and /dev/sdd1 created when the device is plugged in is purely about Linux recognising that there's a new block device present on the SCSI subsystem and then being able to read the partition table correctly. Filesystem doesn't come into it until you actually try to mount the device.
J.