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From: Adam on 18 Feb 2006 22:07
On Mandrake 10.0. Have connected an NTFS formatted drive to USB port. Its
the Maxtor "Personal Storage 3100" of 180gb or so.

Khudzu came the first time, but with a list of various drives and partitions
that I had difficulty in understanding. It seemed to list many mount
points, and offer no instructions as to what action to take. (Perhaps its
"choose the new one", and let Khudzu set it up and mount it ?).

It eventually timed out and . . I think . . chose and updated something.

Now I seem to have 2 removeable storage devices added to the desktop,
as /mnt/removeable1 and /mnt/removeable2 but in neither can I see any
contents. There's also the old /mnt/win_c2 (HD sda5) icon, which works
with my other FAT32 formatted USB storage device.

What should I do next to debug this and get Mandrake reading this thing ?

Should I go; configuration - Hardware - HardDrake . . . ?
[I don't want to format it, just to read stuff off the NTFS].

Or should I get into mcc and take some action there ?

Here below is my current fstab. It is tempting to edit one of those lines;
. ."dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850
0 0" to reflect NTFS instead of ext2, but I am unconfident just at
present.

Yes, I have googled extensively, but found no authorative or clear-cut
advice.

Any help, suggestions or pointers will be very much appreciated. TIA.



fstab;;
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850
0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount
dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850
0 0
none /mnt/ramfs tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /mnt/removable supermount
dev=/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/win_c2 supermount
dev=/dev/sda5,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /mnt/removable2 supermount
dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850
0 0


From: Adam on 18 Feb 2006 22:15
HardDrake shows the following information;

Bus: SCSI
Location on the bus: 0:0:0
Channel: 0
Description: Maxtor Corporation|Personal Storage 3100
New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Old device file: /dev/sda
Module: unknown
Floppy format: Maxtor 6 L200P0
Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))


From: Aragorn on 19 Feb 2006 00:26
On Sunday 19 February 2006 04:07, Adam stood up and spoke the following
words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/

> On Mandrake 10.0. Have connected an NTFS formatted drive to USB port.
> Its the Maxtor "Personal Storage 3100" of 180gb or so.

You're running MDK 10.0, which had the eerie combination of a 2.6 kernel
and /devfs.../ ;-)

> Khudzu came the first time, but with a list of various drives and
> partitions that I had difficulty in understanding. It seemed to list
> many mount points, and offer no instructions as to what action to
> take. (Perhaps its "choose the new one", and let Khudzu set it up and
> mount it ?).
>
> It eventually timed out and . . I think . . chose and updated
> something.
>
> Now I seem to have 2 removeable storage devices added to the desktop,
> as /mnt/removeable1 and /mnt/removeable2 but in neither can I see any
> contents. There's also the old /mnt/win_c2 (HD sda5) icon, which
> works with my other FAT32 formatted USB storage device.
>
> What should I do next to debug this and get Mandrake reading this
> thing ?
>
> Should I go; configuration - Hardware - HardDrake . . . ?
> [I don't want to format it, just to read stuff off the NTFS].

My advice would be to copy everything from that drive and then reformat
it with /vfat./

> Or should I get into mcc and take some action there ?
>
> Here below is my current fstab. It is tempting to edit one of those
> lines;
> .
>
.."dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850
> 0 0" to reflect NTFS instead of ext2, but I am unconfident just at
> present.

Ewww... Those ugly long devicenames is one of the reasons I never liked
/devfs./

You could try adding /ntfs/ to the supported filesystems, like so:

/fs=ext2,vfat,ntfs/

That is of course, assuming that the above line refers to the actual
device. Your other post seems to confirm this.

> [...]
--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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